FLOODS IN EUROPE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 3, 5 January 1926, Page 7

FLOODS IN EUROPE

WIDESPREAD HAVOC

MANY DROWNED OR STARVING

RIVERS RISING IN BRITAIN.

(CMTID MISS ASSOCIATION—COPIMOHT,) (SISNIf SOU 0AM.1.)

LONDON, 3rd January.

The floods are rising throughout Britain, especially in the valleys of the Thames, the Severn, the Wye, and the Avon. Landslides and railway subsidences are frequent. Hundreds of families have been compelled to evacuate their homes. Thousands of dwellers in bungalows in the Thames Valley are marooned, owing to the fifteen days' rain. Beports from the Continent show that at Caens, in Normandy, sixty thousand inhabitants were isolated for three days. Men waded breast tfigh carrying milk for babies and invalids. There are 250,000 workless in Belgium, where rations of bujjy beef and biscuits are being served out,

The Queen of Holland is visiting the stricken villages in HoUand, Thousands in Hungary are still clinging to the roofs of submerged houses, dying of starvation and exposure.

Thousands have been drowned in Rumania, owing to the sudden floods sweeping away factories and bridges. The Bugby wireless station came to the rescue of darkened Warwick and Leamington, whose power stations were flooded, and ia now supplying all current for light to both cities. The Post Office authorities when erecting the Bugby station doubly guarded against failure of it* own power resources by connecting the cables of the Warwick and Leamington power stations, and never anticipated that the process for which the cables were laid would be reversed.