SWEPT BY GALE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10753, 26 November 1928, Page 5

SWEPT BY GALE

DISASTROUS STORM IN BRITAIN DISTRESS CALLS FROM SEVERAL SHIPS. GERMAN STEAMER IN DANGER IN MIH-ATLANTIC. ~ : LINERS DASH TO RESCUE. (British Offleia! Wireless.) ~ * rugby, *Nbvt -2#r Exactly a week after the 'gale which caused serious havoc in London and on the south coast last r ri-r day, another great wind and ram storm swept across the country from, the Atlantic to-day. London again Had the full force of the gale, vducb blew at times in gusts at 80 unileu an hour. t Air services between London and the Continent have had to be suspended, though early iu the ddy they were running to schedule. High seas are raging around the coasts, and shipping is running for shelter. Several ships have sent out distress calls, and the Ramsgate Deal, and other lifeboats have been launched to go to the rescue of fishermen. Sir Austen Chamberlain > K a passenger iu the White Star liner Regma,' which' dashed to the rescue of a German steainer in mid-Atlan-tic, The Regina wirelessed to-day that she set off last night on a 60tnile race to the help" of the AcMLton cargo steamer Herrenwijk, of Luebeck, Germany. '• ~ • : The distress of the German ;vessei was first revealed by a wireless • message from the liner Transylvania, which said she was proceeding to assist the- Herrenwijk in west-sonthr west gales and heavy seas. The Transylvania, on reaching the Herrenwijk, found her in a sinking condition, and stood by her. -After a hard battle through the seas the Re'gma found the Transylvania stapaing by, and was informed that her assistance was not necessary .-She then resumed her voyage to England. hater the Danish steamer Estonia, reported that she had saved 13 or the men of the German boat, and was still searching the wreckage.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATHS. 500 HAVE TO LEAVE HOMES United Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyright (United Service.) (Received Nov. Zo, . 5.5 p.m.) ' LONDON, Nov. 24.. The gale accounted for a number of- extraordinary .deaths. George Clayton, a Liverpool sand-wich-man, who was carrying an advertisement slung across' his shoulders, was blown under a steam truck and instantly killed.. ■ ireorge Kay, 21 > was blown otr the pavement and broke his neck. Two men were killed in a motor truck by a falling tree Another- died of heart failure whilst struggling against the wind. Nearlv five hundred have been ordered to leave wrecked homes in the hutment colony near Ebbvale. •