STORMS IN EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 13

STORMS IN EUROPE.

[WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.

FRENCH AREAS FLOODED.

'MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS.

TRAIN UNDER LANDSLIDE.

DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING.

J3y Tclefcraph—Press Association—Copyrißht 'nii<l N.Z. Pre«a Associntion. ' " (Received September 19, 5.55 p.m.) LONDON, Sent IR. Terrific thunderstorms have followed upon remarkably warm, late summer Weather in the greater part of Europe. . Three people are reported to havo been «»kilM by lightning in England. V/Grent' damage bns been done thvoncrhonl France, particularly in Brittany. There the famous holiday resort. St. Malo, also Dinard and Dinan, havo suffered unprecedented floods in tho past two days. Raging tropical storms have torn np gtrocts and rendered roads impassable. Many houses have been flooded. Stretches oi railway lines in Brittany have been washed away. A train which was passing through St. Brieuc was buried under a landslide. At St. Malo 120 pcoplo aro homeless. : ThTee persons were washed away in the River Ranee, at Dirian. Their bodies were recovered miles below. There were two deaths from lightning. Heavy seas are reported in tho Medi- ■ terranean. Many- wino barrels have t*en washed out to sea from riverside uteres.

BAIN FALLS AT HOME.

LONDON,SHORT OF WATER.

FATAL LIGHTNING STROKES.

(Received September 20. 12.5 a.m.) United Service. LONDON, Sept. 19. The record dry spell in England has been partially broken up by torrential rains in tho south. London has not benefited.

Tho Water Board has renewed its appeal, for the strictest economy in tho use of water.

Two farm workers were killed and three other persons were injtired by lightning while sheltering beneath a tree in. Sussex. A boy was killed and his father was paralysed by lightning in Oxfordshire.