A heavy south-westerly -gal being experienced in Great Britain today, and very rough seas are raging round the coasts. The gale began yesterday evening, and a wind velocity of 61 miles an hoor was experienced in Valencia, South West Ireland, and not much: less at the Scilly Isles and along the English Channel.
This morning the gale grew worse and in the Straits of Dover it was said to be as bad as any experienced there for semic years, with the wind blowing at a.velocity. as high as 70 miles an hour. Mo of the shipping in the Channel hi taken shelter.
This morning the people of Fothestone watched an Imper ways liner fighting her She was at times apparently held stationary by the terrific wind, but arrived safely at Lympne.
Much minor damage is reported different parts of the country.
During the early morning two goods trains from Paddington collided in a blinding rainstorm' near Reading and although no one was injured traffic was disorganized for some hours, In many places trees were uprooted and crops were damaged.
A continuance of the storms is forecast, At Weymosth and. Port~ land, where the gale is estimated 80 miles an hour, with moun-famous seas running, battered vessels came limping in to, shelter every hour through the night.
The Weyniouth lifeboat fought her way to the small French ketch Leone, which had dragged her an-char and was drifting on a reef, and, aided by the searchlights of the battleships, took off the crew—Wireless through Reater.
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