The Archive · 1939

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that restrictions on travel and business in the affected areas, are rendered woldable. entirely on future a Mey d eight children, there lo that in the case of bits York harbour on October 21 one week late on her voyage from Southampton after having ploughed through one of the worst hurricanes ie have been" experienced in Atlantic Ocean for many years.

A Shanghai resident, who was a passenger on the ship, in a letter which recently arrived here, describes the terrible buffeting which the liner experienced before she was able to [make port. The President Harding, he states, left Southampton on October 8 and on October 17, after some very rough weather, ran into the thick of the hurricane the main force Gf which exerted itself from about 9:30. pin. that day until 5 am. the following Nearly everything in the ship was broken ta bits, the passenger states, and tables screwed to the floor "went by like matchboxes," most people being damaged one way or another. During the hurricane there appeared ie be freak waves which submerged the: ship-for nian seconds at a time, and the seas even smashed their way into the smoking room of this large liner, with the result that many passengers were injured aS they and furniture were flung here and there with violent force, Among the Far Eastern passengers was Mr.H. E Morriss of Shanghai. we are vanquished we will become slaves abd the United States will remain alone to defend the rights of man'"—Ünitéd Press.

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