TERRIFIC GALE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10754, 27 November 1928, Page 5

TERRIFIC GALE.

EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED.

RAMSQATE LIFEBOAT MAKES TWO JOURNEYS.

CREW RESCUED EACH TIME.

(British Official ..Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 24. High winds continue' over! England .to-day,, following yesterday’s gale,jin which heavy rainstorms' accompanied the wind, which at times reached 88 miles an hour at ! Liverpool and many other places. Eight people were killed on the land by falling trees and chimneys. Most of tlie Channel services were cancelled, but were running as usual to-day, except that the Boulogne traffic is diverted to Calais. Three seaplanes moored at Portsmouth were sunk by heavy seas, bub two are in comparatively shallow water, although the third was smashed against tlie breakwater. The Ramsgate motor lifeboat made two journeys and rescued men from Deal herring boats, and the Bembridge, Lsle of Wight, lifeboat went to the aid of the Soviet tanker, Nefte Syndicate, which issued distress calls off St. Catherine’s point. Her steering gear had been smashed and she asked for two tugs. The departure from Southampton of the Edinburgh Castle for the Cape and tlie Tuscania for New York was delayed for some hours and the Ma- * lestie from New York, was late in reaching Liverpool. Among the passengers on the Edinburgh Castle were the Earl of Athlone and his wife, Princess Alice, together with their daughter Lady Dlay Cambridge. The earl is returning to South Africa to resume his duties as GovernorGeneral.

GALLANT RESCUES.

i \YLJNTY-TiiKEE LIVES SAVED. GNE CREW .JUDIP OVER AND PULLED ABOARD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 2-5. Ihe gale again raged over England to-day and wireless messages report violent seas to the west and in the North Sea and EnglkJi Channel. Lifeboats have 'been tfwid out in several places and have effected gallant rescues. Twenty-three lives were saved and one life lost when the- New Brighton lifeboat set out to assist the French steamer Emil Delinas, of 2000 tons, yesterday. After lighting through tremendous seas for 15 miles the lifeboat reached the vessel, whoso anchor cables had broken. The crew jumped for it and were pulled safely aboard, although this took over an hour. Then a huge wave washed two of the crew and the- chief engineer of the French steamer overboard, the last named slipping through a lifebuoy and drowningCaptain Coussin, of the Emile Delmas, paid a warm tribute to the braverv of the lifeboat’s crew.

The arrival and departure of liners has been delayed. Sir Austen Chamberlain and party were due to arrive at London from Canada to-day, but owing to the weather the s.s. Regina, on which they travelled, was late in docking at Liverpool, having to await her turn on the landing exten-

sion. Minor damage was done by the gale. The weather forecasts anticipate a continuation of the rough conditions.

GERMAN CADETS RESCUED

(Australian Press Association.' LONDON, Nov. 26.

during the gales several fataiitiesoccurred in various parts of the country from falling trees and tiles, and the Channel and Irish Sea ■services were suspended. The German cadet training barque Pommern, off Guernsey, sent out distrss signals. Another German ship rescued 40 cadets, the British minelayer Adventure rescuing the remaining 40. There were mountainous seas in the Bay of Biscay, where a large french hner is in distress.

HEROIC RESCUE OF GERMAN NAVAL CADETS.

AERODROME ANIWMOTp FLEET DESTROYED. ....

United Preß* Absh. by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received Nov. 26, 10. p.m.; LONDON, Nov. 26. The steamers Lancastria and Osterley rescued the Pommem s cadets ‘with the aid of the Limerick and the Chepstow Castle, which stood by The Lancastria launched a lifeboat but this was smashed up, the crew having a most narrow escape. The rescue of all the Pommern’s crew was finally effected by pouring oil on the mountainous seas. The wind was sometimes eighty-five or ninety miles an hour. The destruction of the Cramliugton aerodrome has involved the loss of the Newcastle Aero Oluhl’s entire fleet of Moth ’planes. The reof _of the hangar fell in. the ’planes being crashed against the sides of the hangar during the storm.

AIR FULL OF S.O.S. CALLS CONGESTION OF SHIPPING IN ALL PORTS United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assn.) LONDON. Nov. 26. As a result of the gale, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Cherbourg, and other Continental ports are crowded with vessels which ran for shelter, while conditions in the Channel and North Sea are vividly indicated by a Cherbourg message, which states: “The air is full- of SOS calls.” Fifty vessels of all nationalities are sheltering in tho roadsteads off Deal alone. There has not been such a congestion for many years. Some vessels have wirelessed that they » are short of provisions. Air services from tho Continent were cancelled, but the midday service from London to Paris was flown in duplicate owing to the number of passengers anxious to avoid the rough sea crossing. The journey was accomplished in 95 minutes.