SEVERE GALES
EXPERIENCED AT HOME.
DAMAGE IN SOUTH-WEST
STORM IN CHANNEL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 23. Severe gales which swept the south-west of England during the night continued this morn-
ing. A gust of 94 miles an hour was recorded at the Scilly Islands. Gale conditions prevailed in the English Channel.
On land the gale caused damage ill Devonshire and Cornwall.
A house collapsed at Devonport early in the morning, causing the death of two children.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 47, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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