CHEAT DAMAGE IN BRITAIN

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12024, 30 December 1924, Page 6

CHEAT DAMAGE IN BRITAIN

j SHIPPING ENCOUNTERS WORST | SEAS KNOWN FOR YEARS. | HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES. ‘Rz Telegraph.—Proas Assn.—Copyright. 5 Reuter’s Telegram. ! LONDON, December 28. I Though the gale is abating, ship-' j wrecks are reported, and floods, accom- > panied by some loaa of life, are causing' rauoh damage throughout the country. 1 The storm was particularly disastrous •to coastal shipping, j A German trawler was lost off the ■ West Coast of and there is only one survivor out of a crew of 14. i At the Isle of Wight, lifeboats launched to assist distressed steamers battled for'hours in the -worst seas known m the-,Channel for years. A landslide near Pontypool blocked a roadway; and houses, chimneys, and walls collapsed in .many towns, and there were hairbreadth escapes. Mountainous seas swept the Flushing and Boulogne steamers from end to end when; they left Folkestone. ■ A naval monitor broke from her moorings at Spithead, and was blown across the Solent and ytranded on the opposite shore. i , Two bodies and a_ considerable 1 amount of. wreckage, believed to belong to a French veseol, have been washed Up.: | . In Carmarthenshire, heavy destruction waa wrought in tne Rhondda Valley, and many inhabitants who were ‘ Cut off near Aberystwyth had to be ! rescued by means of boats. !, Three hundred tons of loosened earth collapsed on top of a train in a rail- ' way cutting between Brecon and Merjtbjrr, and some of the passengers were injured. MAJESTIC DAM AIDED CRACKED ABOVE WATERLINE. (Sydney “San” Cable.) - LONDON, December 28. The “Daily Mail” states that the liner Majestic developed a crack above the waterline owing to the strain during the- bad weather. The repairs will occupy three months.