NIGHT OF TERROR
Fierce Storm in Britain COLLAPSE OF SEA WALLS Plight At Winchelesea HOLIDAY BUNGALOWS FLOODED MANY OCCUPANTS MAROONED (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 4. Britain was .swept by storms and gales yesterday. Two hundred spent a night of terror at Winchelesea. when mountainous seas broke the embankments, flooded 60 holiday bungalows and isolated 150.
The water was so rough it wa.s impossible for boats to reach them. Women and children screamed in terror. Soane tried to wade to safety, risking injury by submerged barbed wire fences. Others climbed on to the roafs, where they remained until the tide abated.
Motorists focussd headlights on the desolate scene, assisting the rescuers. The area was also flooded last November. The sea, in encroaching at the rate of 50 feet annually.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 5 September 1932, Page 5
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