FLOODS IN EUROPE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10194, 5 January 1926, Page 5

FLOODS IN EUROPE

LANDSLIDES AND RAILWAY SUBSIDENCES IN BRITAIN. DISASTERS ON~THE CONTINENT. THOUSANDS DYING OF STARVATION IN HUNGARY. HUGE DEATH" ROLL IN RUMANIA. United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan 5, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. Floods are rising throughout Britain especially in the valleys of tho Thames, Severn, V r yc-, and Avon. Landslides and railway subsidences are frequent. Hundreds of families are compelled to evacuate their homes. Thousands of dwellers in bungalows in the Thames Valley are marooned owing to fifteen days’ rain. The Rugby wireless station came to the rescue of darkened Warwick and Leamington whose power stations were flooded and is now supplying ali current and light to both cities. The Post Office when erecting the Rugby station doubly guarded against the failure of power resources by connecting the cables in the Warwick and Leamington power stations. It was never anticipated that the process wherefore tlie cables were laid would be reversed.

Reports from the Continent show that at Caens 69,600 inhabitants were isolated for three days. Men waded breast-high carrying milk for babies and invalids. There are 250,000 workless in Belgium where rations of bully beef and biscuits are being served out. The Queen of Holland is visiting villages. Thousands in Hungary are still clinging to the roofs of submerged houses and are dying of starvation and exposure. Thousands were drowned in Rumania owing to the sudden floods sweeping away factories and bridges.—Sun.