FLOODS IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9

FLOODS IN BRITAIN

THOUSANDS OF ACRES SUBMERGED WRECKAGE WASHED UP ON COAST (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 31. Extensive flooding is reported from Upper parts of the Thames Valley ant) in North Wales and the neighbourhood of York. The River Ouse at York yesterday reached its highest point for the past 25 years. Thousands of acres of land are flooded by the overflowing of the Ouse, the Derwent, and the Foss Rivers. Cottage property, buildings, and other premises on the banks of the Ouse have had their basements and grounds flooded, and there has been considerable alarm among the poorer classes at the rapid rate of the rise.

As the result of the week-end storm much wreckage has been washed up at various parts of the English Coast. A large ship’s boat was washed ashore yesterday, equipped with provisions, lifebelts, and long ropes. It bore the name of Tersonref. There was nobody in the boat, tlie sails of which were torn. A derelict wooden- vessel, timber-laden and floating bottom up, drove ashore against the high cliffs at Scousburgh, Shetland. it was impossible to reach the wreck to ascertain tlie name of the ship or whether there were any bodies on board. A crippled three-masted motor schooner of Hamburg was seen struggling round South Foreland during the gale in the Channel yesterday morning. The vessel was much daniagecl, but declined assistance.