London, Oct. 28.
vessels have foundered in the terrify gale' which. swept the North Sea and Great Britain yesterday and to-day, while fears are entertained for the many others overdue.
Four survivors of the Latvian s, Helena Faulbaums, which struck, a rock near the Hebrides, reached Glasgow to-day.
Five bodies were washed ashore this morning at Oban, in Argyllshire. It is feared. that the, remaining nine members of the crew of eighteen have been, drowned.
The death-roll hitherto in Great Britain as a result of the gale'is eleven.
The fatalities included a five-veal boy, who} was found dead under the wreckage of a tenement building in Glasgow, and a. motor-cyclist, who was killed by a falling tree in Kent.
At Abbotsuch; twelve planes belonging to the Royal Air Force were damaged by winds which blew at a velocity of 89 miles an hour.
In Argyllshire, roads were blocked by hundreds of fallen trees, and telephone communications were interrupted.
The North Sea s, Esbjerg-rescued the crew of five of the Swedish vessel Signdalla, which was foundering in a heavy sea,. The rescue was witnessed by the Grown Prince Frederick Denmark, who was on board the Esbjerg on his way back home after' a visit to England, At Dover, 100 passengers in the Rew trans-Giannel train ferry spent the night In their sleeping-cars, ferry leaving for Dunkerque nine hours late, The gale reached a velocity of 92 miles an hour on the Merseyside, and left a trail of havoc...
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