TEARING GALE
HUNDREDS OF HOMES UNROOFED.
PEOPLE’S DISTRESS INCREASED,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 27. The gale caused terrible distress in the colliery town of Elaina, Monmouthshire where 45 per cent of employable persons arc out of work. The. roofs of 400 houses were blown off. The homes of 700 people are thus uninhabited. Hundreds of other houses are flooded out. Tho total damage is £50,000.
BELGIAN INUNDATTONS
WORST FOR FIFTY YEARS
(Australian Press Association.) ' (Received 2.52 p.m.) BRUSSELS, November 28. Tiie floods in Belgium are the worst for half a century. Fifty villages are party under water. The dykes burst so rapidly in many cases that the villagers had only itime to save> their lives. Roads and railways are cut in some districts, resulting in Brussels and Antwerp being without vegetables and milk. Shipyards, metalworks and brickyards along the .River Scheldt, are badly damaged. Many houses collapsed. The gale has done damage to the whole of the Belgian coast, the total amount running into many million francs. The Government has created an emergency relief fund.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1928, Page 5
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