ATLANTIC GALES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20340, 12 February 1936, Page 9

ATLANTIC GALES

WILDEST WEATHER IN ENGLAND LOW TEMPERATURE AND HEAVY SEAS British Official Wireless (Received February 11, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, February 10. A strong easterly gale is sweeping Southern England, and the weather is exceptionally cold. The gale reached a velocity of 80 miles an hour at Plymouth. Incoming vessels report weather of the wildest character in the Atlantic. The sea is rough around all the coasts and halbours. Many ships have sought shelter. WIDE AREA SWEPT. EXTREME COLD AND ROUGH SEAS. British Official Wireless (Received February 11, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, February 10. Winds of gale force have swept the country to-day, gusts of 70 miles an hour, being reported. Extreme cold prevails, and the weather forecases predict its continuance for several days. There were heavy seas in the English Channel. Two seamen lost their lives when a barge, in which they were being towed, broke loose, near Plymouth, and sank. INTENSE COLD IN U.S.A. DEATH ROLL EXCEEDS TWO HUNDRED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 11, 10.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 11. Intense cold still grips the Middle West, with the Weather Bureau promising no relief for several days. Icy winds blowing across the central States added to the suffering. The death roll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks, is now estimated to exceed 200. Three fishermen, who were marooned on floating ice in Lake Michigan have been given up as lost. From small towns .throughout the States of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas and Ohio, came reports of exhausted or dwindling supplies of fuel and food with snow drifts blocking the highways and halting some of the railways. On reports of profiteering in coal, the authorities at Washington indicated that they were considering the fixing of emergency prices if it became necessary. NIGHT ON THE ICE. RESCUE OF CONSERVATION CORPS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 11, 10.10 p.m.) BOSTON, February 10. The seven civilian conservation corp boys were rescued after a night on the ice. An aeroplane discovered them in .Cape Cod Bay and a coast guard cutter removed them with the aid of small boats. A message published yesterday stated: Seven civilian conservation corps workers are facing a perilous situation. While working on a bay of ice near Brewster (Massachusetts), the part they were on broke off and drifted into the Atlantic. Coastguard cutters are cruising the area in search of them.