RAVAGES OF STORM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 9

RAVAGES OF STORM

WRECKAGE STREWS ENGLISH COAST WIDESPREAD FLOODS British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. Extensive floods are reported to have occurred in the upper parts of the Thames Valley and in North Wales and the neighbourhood of York. The River Ouse, at York, yesterday reached its highest point for the past 25 years. Thousands of acres of land have been flooded by the overflowing of this river and the Derwent and Foss rivers. Cottage property, buildings and other premises on the banks of the (Duse have had their basements and grounds flooded. There is considerable alarm among the poorer classes at the rapid rate of the rise of the river. As a result of the storm .at the end of last week much wreckage has been washed up on various parts of the English coast. A large ship’s boat was washed ashore yesterday. It was equipped with provisions, lifebelts and long ropes. It bore the name Tersonnef. There was nobody in the boat, the sails of which were torn. A derelict wooden vessel, timber laden, and floating bottom upwards, drove ashore against the high cliffs at Scousburgh, Shetland. It has been impossible to reach the wreck in order to ascertain her name or see whether there are any bodies on board. A crippled three-masted motorschooner from Hamburg was seen struggling round the South Foreland yesterday morning. The vessel was much damaged, but her master declined assistance.