FLOODS AND GALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17146, 31 December 1929, Page 8

FLOODS AND GALES

CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN LARGE AREAS FLOODED (British Official Wireless.) Bee. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Dee. 30. Yet another severe gale, with gusts reaching a velocity of 811 miles an hour, swept the British Isles, Northern France, and the North Sea during the week-end. The wind moderated today, but unsettled conditions arc likely to remain. Tremendous seas wore running in the English Channel and the Straits of Dover, and lifeboat crews were kept standing by in case of emergency. Incessant rains caused a recurrence of flooding in many districts, but the lower Thames levels were, not appreciably higher. In the Oxford district, however, large stretches of Water 'cover low-lying meadows. In cast and north Yorkshire thousands of acres are covered with water, which in parts is 6ft. deep. In north Wales many roads are again impassable. When the River Dee burst its banks near Corweii yesterday morning farmers lost many cattle and sheep, despite all attempts at rescue. The storm carried away the aerial of the British Broadcasting Corporation's short-wave station nt Chelmsford. Other stations worked normally, but the mishap at Chelmsford necessitated the abandonment of arrangements for broadcasting the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon, delivered last night at Canterbury Cathedral.