13 APRIL 1934, Page 6

It is to be hoped some accurate scientific statement will

be forthcoming sooner or later about the waves that swept a Norwegian fiord a week ago. All the newspapers agree (not surprisingly, since they mainly relied on the same agency message) that the waves were 200 feet high. That may be possible, for the rush of water was caused by a huge fall of rock into a narrow arm of the sea, but I should like to know more about observations of previous disasters of this kind. Waves at sea, even in the fiercest storms, rarely-.exceed 70 feet from trough to crest—which is not the same thing as 70 feet above the mean level of the sea. That three times that height should have been registered in the Korsnaes Fiords would be surprising. The facts are worth investigating.

JAKus.