EIGHT KILLED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 9

EIGHT KILLED

Screaming Gale Takes Toll of British Life and Property

PERIL AND HEROISM AT SEA

Received 10.46 a.m. RUGBY, Saturday. HIGH winds continued over England to-day, following yesterday’s gale, in which heavy rainstorms were accompanied by wind which at times reached 88 miles an hour at Liverpool and many other places.

Eight people were killed on land by falling trees and chimneys. Most of the Channel services were cancelled, but they were running as usual to-day, except that the Boulogne traffic is diverted to Calais. Three seaplanes which were moored at Portsmouth were sunk by the heavy seas, but two are in comparatively shallow water, although the third was smashed against the breakwater. The Ramsgate motor lifeboat made two journeys and rescued men from Deal herring-boats; and the Bombridge, Isle of Wight, lifeboat, went to the aid of the Soviet tanker Nefte Syndicat, which had issued distress calls off St. Catherine’s Point. I-ler steering gear had been smashed and she asked for two tugs. The departure from Southampton o fthe s.s. Edinburgh Castle for the Cape, and the s.s. Tuscania for New York was delayed for some hours; and the s.s. Majestic, from New York, was late In re-aching Liverpool. Among the passengers on the Edinburgh Castle were the Earl of Athlon© and his wife, Princess Alice, together with their daughter, Lady May Cambridge. The Earl is returning to South Africa to resume his duties as Governor-General. SUNDAY ALSO A Sunday message says the gale again raged over England, and wireless messages report violent seas to the west and in the North Sea and the English Channel. Lifeboats have been called out in several places and have effected gallant rescues. Twenty-three lives were saved and one life was lost

when the New Brighton lifeboat set out to assist the French steamer Emile Belmas, of 2,000 tons, yesterday. After fighting through tremendous seas for 15 miles, the lifeboat reached the vessel, whose anchor cables had broken. The crew jumped for it anjl were pulled safely aboard, although this took over an hour. Then a huge wave washed two of the crew and the chief engineer of the French steamer OverBoard, the last-named stepping through a lifebuoy and drowning. Captain Coussin. of the Emile Delmas, paid a warm tribute to the bravery of the lifeboat’s crew. MOUNTAINOUS SEAS The arrivals and departures of liners have been delayed. Sir Austen Chamberlain and his party were due to arrive at London from Canada today, hut owing to the weather the Regina, on which they travelled, was late in docking at Liverpool. The German cadet training barque Pommern, off Guernsey, sent out distress signals. Another German ship rescued 40 cadets, the British minelayer Adventure rescuing the remaining 40. There are mountainous seas in the Bay of Biscay, where a large French liner is in distress. SHIP LOST IN STORM • CAPTAIN GOES TO DEATH (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) CAPETOWN, Saturday. The British cargo steamer Cariboo has Ijeen wrecked. The vessel left East London yesterday In a terrific storm and ran on to the rocks 35 miles south of that port. She was refloated under her own steam, but began to founder. The crew took to the boats, and were picked up by another steamer. The captain remained on board. The Cariboo was a steel screw steamer of 7,275 tons. She was built at Clydebank in 1924 by John Brown and Company, Ltd., and was owned by Elder, Dempster and Company, Ltd. Her port of registry was Liverpool.