FLOODS IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 20373, 3 January 1930, Page 8

FLOODS IN ENGLAND

SEVERAL RIVERS OVERFLOW WRECKAGE WASHED ON COAST (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 31. Extensive flooding is reported from the upper parts of the Thames Valley and in North Wales and the neighbourhood of York. The River Ouse at York yesterday reached its highest point for the past twenty-five years, and tluusauds of acres of land are flooded by the overflowing of the Ouse, the Derwent, and Foss Rivers. Cottage property, buildings, and other premises on the banks of the Ouse have had their basements and grounds flooded, and there is 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 or the English coast, and a large ship’s boat was washed ashore yesterday. It was equipped with pro visions, lifebelts, and long ropes, and it bore the name of Tersonnef. There was nobody in the boat, the 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 is impossible to reach the wreck to ascertain the name of the ship or whether there are any bodies on board.

A crippled three-masted motor schooner from Hamburg was seen struggling round the South Foreland during the gale in the Channel yesterday morning. The vessel was much damaged, but declined assistance.