S.O.S. Calls Fill Air
storm sweeps seas VESSELS RUN FOR SHELTER United PA. — Uu Telegraph—Copyrights /Australian and S.Z. Press Association) Reed. 2.16 p.m. LONDON'. Sunday. Dunkirk, Boulogne and Cherbourg .„d other Continental ports are crowded with vessels which have run in for shelter. Conditions in the Channel and Vorth Sea are vividly Indicated by a Cherbourg message reading: “Their is full of S.O-S. calls.” 1 j,-jfty vessels of all nationalities are sheltering in the roadsteads off Deal aloue. There has not been such congestion for many years. Some vessels wireless that they are short of povisions. Air services from the Continent are cancelled, but the mid-day service London to Paris was doubled, owing to the number of passengers anxious to avoid the rough sea-crossing. The journey was accomplished in 95 minutes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 13
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