HEAVY STORMS
ALONG THE ENGLISH COAST.
(British Official Wireless ) *
RUGBY, October 31. Heavy gales, accompanied in. some parts by torrential rains, have swept the British Isles during the week-end, and caused considerable damage, on sea am . laud. One gust of wir d in Folkestone Harbour registered a velocity of. 119 miles ian hour, which is the highest speed recorded since -the gauge was installed. AID of the English Channel ports were severely swept by seas. Lifeboats were summoned to vessels' 1 in distress off the coast. A Dover life-' boat was out for many hours on Saturday night in search of a German mail freight plan© which was engaged on a might journey from Croydon, and was lost over the Channel yesterday. The search was taken up by Royal Air Force planes, but no trace of the plane or its wreckage was found.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1932, Page 5
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