STORMS IN BRITAIN.
EXTENSIVE FLOODS OCCUR. SHIPPING IN DIFFICULTIES. (United Pi ess Association—Copyright.) LONDON. December 3. Rain and high winds with gusts between 50 and 60 miles an hour occurred yusterdav over the British Isles, the bad weather being due to one of the deepest Atlantic depressions observed for the last 50 years. |Tn the English Channel high sene ran. and the cross-Channel boat services were maintained with difficulty. Lifeboats from Weymouth to Swanage and two tugs from Portland put out, and ships in the, Channel "altered their courses in answer t(, an S.O.S. from the steamer Canadian Transport, but a change of wind enabled her to clear the danger «one. An oil tanker which had lost ita rudder in the storm was towed into Falmouth by two Dutch tugs. Fishing fleets and small craft kept to harbour. During the day heavy rains, narticufarly in the West of England, aggravated the flood situation in many parts, as almost all the rivers have now overflowed their banks. The low-lymg areas in the upper reaches of the Thames are Extensively flooded.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 47, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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