GALE IN CHANNEL
PASSENGER SERVICES DISLOCATED British Official Wireless (Received December 12, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 11. When the Channel steamer Biarritz arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne this afternoon, she was the first passenger boat to berth since the port was closed 24 hours earlier owing to a gale which last night exceeded well over 60 miles an hour. Yesterday cross-Channel services were dislocated and steamers were forced to wait for several hours before getting into port. The sea and wind have now moderated and normal services are operating,
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20290, 13 December 1935, Page 11
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89GALE IN CHANNEL Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20290, 13 December 1935, Page 11
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