THAW AND FLOOD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5

THAW AND FLOOD

UNHAPPY ENGLAND EIGHTEEN INGRES OF WATER ON ROADS

GALE IN CHANNEL

(United Press Assn.—-Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 3.

The floods which are being reported from all parts of England are regarded by motoring associations as being as had as the previous snowdrifts. The Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Association are sending out lists of roads made impassable bv the water which is 18 inches deep in some places. Besides the floods additional dif cnlty is created for road traffic by miniature avalanches which in many places, as a result of the thaw, slip from higher ground into the icadwa'ys. Night- travelling, of course, is particularly affected by such unexpected obstructions. Conditions in the English Channel are again had. A strong south-west-erly gale is blowing and heavy seas are running. This afternoon’s Ifbu-iogne-Folkestone boat had to be diverted to Dover.— British Official Wireless.

HUNDREDS OF HOMES SURROUNDED BY WATER.'

VAST AREAS RESEMBLE SEA

* (Received January 4, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 4. Extraordinary scenes continue to be witnessed in flooded England. Hundreds of homes are surrounded by water, and business men are being ferried along strep lies of roads and railway track like rivers.

Great areas of land are so changed in appearance that Captain Berry, piloting an Imperial Airways liner from Cologne had to' set a compass course over the south-eastern countries to Croydon, as if flying over the sea.—A. and N.Z.C.A

DRAMATIC RE-APPEARANCE OF

LOST VILLAGE

ENGULFED A CENTURY AGO

SEEN AT LOW TIDE THREE MILES OUT AT SEA. y

(Received January 4, 7.40 p.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 4. Tiie lost parish church of Walton-on-the-Naze, which was engulfed a century ago with the village, and now is three miles out at sea. dramatically re-appeared during an exceptionally low" tide following on a heavy .storm. The belfry is know as the Ghost < hurc-h, and great crowds gathered on the sea-front, to which the ruin was silhouetted against the sky until the tide returned and again cn’"ulfeci the building.— k A. and X .Z. C.A.