GALES IN BRITAIN.
FOURTEEN DEATHS REPORTED
GALLANT LIFEBOAT RESCUES
(Aust. and N.Z. Press Assn.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The death roll from the week-end gale in England numbers 14. There were many gallant lifeboat rescues round the coast. Scores of small craft arrived to-day badly battered. (British Official Wireless.) * RUGBY, Feb. 12. The gales were still blowing early, this morning in the North Sea and Channel, where heavy seas are running. Despite the storm handicaps, the air lliers of Imperial Airways maintained the outward service to Paris. Brussels and Cologne. The inward services from Brussels and Cologne to London were cancelled, but one of Imperial Airways 1 liners carrying 13 passengers, made a flight from Paris to London. The journey occupied four hours. The steamship Taormina, of Oslo, bound from Port 'ialbot to Lisbon with 2,<;00 tons of coal, foundered ai Pads tow' (Cornwall). By splendid seamanship the Uadsluw lifeboat got alongside the vessel and rescued the crow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 5
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