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Storm,
Heavy Rain
In Britain
Australian Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 26.
After a night of bowl- <*>
ing sales and heavy rain.
Britain was still lashed by
storms early today.
The aircra? carrier XBus
trtous poured oO on the ragtag
seas 30 miles off The LJxard,
south-western Cornwall, in an
attempt to save the m-ton
Scottish Steamer Tevpark.
Tta tart mescace from the
Illustrious said that tbe Tev
iPark's sand cargo was in danger
(of shifting.
! Ufeboat stations were alerted
along tbe south-west and south'
coast.
i Off Htriyhead tbe crew or th*
jcaaster afaFflowcr had to be
{taken off fay rocket-fired line.
( High aeas wasted away the
foundations of tbe Penance
imam railway line near Oawbih.
lOeyon. Giant waves i^wi'"*"'
.txains pmaitnf along tbe coast
Ibetweea THgnmouth and Daw
!lish before tbe ones were de-
Iclared unsafe.
The 2SOHoo coasta] collier
Arch Glen was driven asbore at
Dover. Tbe skipper stayed
laboafd. tout tbe Dover lifeboat'
brought tfaree members of tbe
?crew asbore. using a rope lad
der to rescue them.
More damage was done at
jSandgate, near Foatestone, ear
jly today b\ a TO-mile-an-hour
gale, even more \iolrot than
ithat which hit the town yes
{terday. damagine historic Sand
igate Castle.
70 m-pii. Wind
[ At Hastings and Liverpool
the wind touched 70 m-pJi.
Waves broke over the Hast
ings promenade, flooding cen
tral streets. ~??""b
A Belgian cross-Ouuinel
steamer broke its mouihMt in
Dover harbor and coUdedwith
the British BaOwrvs cross
{Caiannel vesael Maid of Or
| leans.
PARTS. Oct. 26.—Bent men
hare perished hi a storm winch
has raged off the Breton coast
for three days and which bit
tbe Mediterranean coast last
night.
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