7 AUGUST 1926, Page 3

We regret to record another of those disastrous hurri- canes

which periodically burst upon the 14-itudes where lie our West Indian Colonies. Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, has been terribly damaged and lives were lost. At present nothing has been heard of two mail-boats, or of a fleet of eighty sponge-fishers. Puerto Rico, San Domingo, and the Leeward Islands have also suffered severely. We learn with gratitude that although the storm did great damage on the mainland of Florida and Georgia; several United States coastguard vessels went to give help in the Bahamas at the urgent request of H. M.'s Vice-Consul there.