STORM SUBSIDES

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 13

STORM SUBSIDES

ALL SHIPPING SAFE FLOODS IN BRITISH COUNTIES (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 7. The tempestuous weather during which gusts reaching eighty-two miles an hour were registered at Falmouth, moderated last night, and vessels which had sought shelter were able to resume their voyages. The skies are now clear, .with a gentle breeze and a slight sea. This morning the cruisers Norfolk, Dorsetshire, and Exeter left Plymouth for the West Indies, further postponement of the cruise of the Atlantic Fleet being unnecessary. Although many vessels were temporarily disabled in the English Channel during the storm, adequate assistance yraa forthcoming in all cases. The battleship Royal Sovereign, and the joruiser Exeter, together with the Plymouth lifeboats, for some hours stood by a steamer which lost her propeller Hear Eddystone lighthouse. They were recalled when the storm ceased. Wheni the liner Rajputana arrived, fir Lloyd George said that they had ad a pretty good dusting during the Storm, but the passengers escaped without injury* Otherwise it was a delightful voyage. ■ Much damage was done by floods yesterday in many areas. Roads were submerged and rivers overflowed their banks, particularly in north-western England. An extensive landslide occurred on the Sheffield-Manchester road over the Pennines. In South Wales many farms are isolated owing to floods, and the railway traffic in some centres • has been interrupted.