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Show STORIES OF . XMAS GALE Passengers on Ship Sit For Many Hours Knee-Deep Knee-Deep in Water London. Dec. 2S. Stories of experiences ex-periences during the Christmas gales in the English channel were told bv many of the .100 passengers on the Peninsular and Oriental liner Narrating, Nar-rating, which arrived in the Thames today. The vessel, which had como from the far east, met the full force of the hurricane ofr Ushant, on the trench coast on Christmas morning Great waves washed the vessel's decks and flooded most of the cab-Ins. cab-Ins. Th0 passengers. drion from their berths, were compelled to sit :or many hours, most or Ihcm in light nlghtciothiiig, knee deep In water Finally an Immense sea struck the vessel and crippled her Wireless messages were sent off asking assistance, as-sistance, but before it arrived the captain had once more got his vessel under control and was making his vay as best he could toward the mouth of the Thames. The Xarra-rung Xarra-rung arrived with a heavy list and everything on the decks smashed, lorn or washed away. From most of the southern ports come reports of the arrival of storm-damaged storm-damaged vessels. |