STEAMER IN DISTRESS.
LIFEBOATS TO THE RESCUE. GALES ON BRITISH COASTS. BATTLESHIP REVENGE ADRIFT. By Telegraph—Press Association—-Copyright. (Received March 17. 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. • Violent grilles continue along the British coasts. The Belgian steamer Bucharest is in distress at Peterhead. Lifeboats have been launched, and rockets got rea<ly. Tlio obsolete battleship Revenge is ad'rift at Ryde, endangering shipping. The wildest weather is raging in the Channel, and Iho Ncwhaven-Dieppo service has been suspended. Heavy rains flooded tho Thames Valley, and many districts elsewhere are submerged. Stormy conditions also prevail on tho Continent, and tho Rhine Valley is flooded. Tl\p Seine is rising, and Paris is alarmed. Many sea and land telegraph services are interrupted. Tugs subsequently secured the Re* venge undamaged.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 6
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