STORMS IN EUROPE. GALES ON-THE ENGLISH COAST.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 5

STORMS IN EUROPE.

GALES ON-THE ENGLISH COAST.

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STEAMER IN DISTRESS. CHANNEL SERVICE SUSPENDED.. London, March 16. Violent galeß continue along .the British coasts. The Belgian steamer Bucharest is in distress, at Peterhuad. Lifeboats have been launched and rookets got ready. The • obsolete battleship Revenge went adrift at Ryde, and endangered shipping. Tugs later secured the Revenge undamaged. The wildest weather is raging in the Channel. The Newhaven-Dieppe service is mispended. Heavy rains flooded the Thames Valley, and many districts elsewhere are submerged. Stormy conditions also prevail on tie Continent. The Rhine Valley is flood-1 cd. The Seine is rising and Paris is j alarmed. Many sea and land telegraphs are interrupted.