ENGLAND SUFFERS FIFTH DAY OF VIOLENT STORM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 1

ENGLAND SUFFERS FIFTH DAY OF VIOLENT STORM.

MORE SHIPPING DISASTERS REPORTED. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right.) (Received December 10, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 9. The week-end weather exceeded in violence any experienced in England since accurate wind-speed records have been kept. The fifth day of the storm is now taking place, and the wind reaches gale force in gusts, while exceptionally heavy seas are still running round the coasts. The cross-Channel services were resumed this morning, despite the high wind and seas. Over thirty large steamers, most of them with two anchors down, have been sheltering off Deal, and, as already reported, numerous casualties have occurred to shipping. Some of the older members of the lifeboat crews, although exhausted by their ordeals, have refused to consider the suggestion that volunteers, plenty of whom were available, should take their places in the They have been responsible for saving numerous liv^s. During the week-end the British Royal Mail liner Arlanza, bound for Brazil, rescued the crew of the 5000-ton Italian steamer Casmona in the Bay of Biscay, and the German steamship Hansa tock off the Casmona’s captain. The Arlanza lost a boat during the rescue operations, but no casualties occurred. The Casmona -was abandoned in a sinking condition. On land, several people have been killed by falling trees and chimneys.