FLOODS IN BRITAIN.
HUNDREDS LEAVE IHEIR HOMES. POSITION SERIOUS IN EUROPE. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received Tuesday 0.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3.—The floods are rising throughout Britain especially in the valleys ef the Thames, the Severn, the Wye and the Avon. Landslides and railway subsidences are frequent. Hundreds of families have been compelled to evacuate their homes. Thousands of dwellers in bungalows in the Thames Valley are marooned owing to 15 days’ rhin. Reports from tho Continent show that at Caens, 60 thousand inhabitants were isolated for three days. Men waded, breast high, carrying milk for babies and invalids. There are 250,000 workless in Belgium, where rations of bully beef and biscuits are being served out. Thousands in Hungary are still eliqging to the roofs of submerged houses, dying of starvation and exposure. Thousands were drowned in Rumania owing to sudden floods sweeping away factories and bridges.— (“Sun.”)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 January 1926, Page 5
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