GALES RENEWED
DAMAGE IN BRITAIN j STEAMER OVERWHELMED (Receive'.! Dec. Ill), '■', p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 29. Renewed gales along the coast and extending inland are responsible for considerable damage, tearing off roofs and uprooting large trees. A house collapsed at Manchester, burying a mother and her daughter beneath the debris and injuring four children. The German steamer Hermione was overwhelmed in the Channel, bat tho crew, the captain and his wife and child were rescued spectacularly after a struggle by the Margate lifeboat, Tho waterlogged steamer drifted before tingale a. menace to shipping, but it subsequently was located and anchored. HAVOC IN N. FRANCE CHANNEL SERVICES SUSPENDED » (Received Dec. 30, '.'> p.m.) PARIS, Dee. 29. The gale also swept the whole of Northern France, great havoc 'being done to tiiees, houses, and telegraph wires. A miniature facial wave at Havre swept over tho quays and flooded part of the city, and sank a.tug. Two persons were drowned. Many trans-Channel services and all the air lines were suspended.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 11
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