FLOODS IN ENGLAND
CREATE GREAT DAMAGE
LARGE AREAS AFFECTED
LONDON, Last Night
Hundreds of thousands of pounds damage has been done throughout England. Torrential rains, which broke the record of fifty years in many districts, are causing the most serious floods, particularly in Yorkshire, where scores of farmsteads arc cut off. The water is converting fields into lakes, washing away corn and potatoes and killing poultry. Six hundred shops and a thousand houses- in Derby were inundated. Hundreds of roads in North England arc impassable.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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85FLOODS IN ENGLAND Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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