LONDON FLOODS REMAIN SERIOUS

Grey River Argus, 20 March 1947, Page 5

LONDON FLOODS REMAIN SERIOUS

LONDON, March IS.

The Thames Conservancy Board has ceased to pred.er how fiooi.s might develop. The record levels of 1894 have been passed in many places. The river is likely to continue to rise. The Thames is three miles wide at Chertsey. A man who was returning with his wife in a boat to their home at Chertsey to collect bedding and food, was drowned when the craft overturned. His wife was rescued.

Water in some parts of Maidenhead is four to five feet deep. Telephones and electricity supplies have failed. The roads are impassable through floods within a rough square with corners at Holyhead, Grimsby, Torquay and Harwich. Snow and ice are still blocking many roads in North England and Scotland. Only one ’‘priority route” is open o Scotland.