SEVERE GALE IN EUROPE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 11

SEVERE GALE IN EUROPE.

pygES BROKEN BY SEA. JILTING AREAS flooded. rILL AGB SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVE. iSSOCIATIOX-B, ELiscraic ,«d November 25th, 1.48 a.m.) IB*"* . „, JXJNDON, November <-i. u eansed a breach in the dyko if Smburg and a wide stretch of fo flooded, including a village *ar cripples. "* !* a n(l sailors have been orthe out-lying regions of Paris •Bit the farmers, owing to the 9 ftiaa reaching the danger mark. homes have been flooded at «bs tidal-wave at Etretat hiding boats into the streets, 2L them against houses, which the occupants Hying m The wreckage of the boats and JhWtogi strewn in the iKB* STEAMER wrecked. 1/ifiS OF CREW OF THIRTY FEARED.

[ (gfrtived November 25th, 1.4S a.m.) | LONDON, November 24. tie Cnxbaven steamer, Louiso Legnttfit «U driven ashore in the Elbe daring the heavy gale. A ealage iteamer was sent from Cuxhaven !*t WM unable to find the wreck, riitll it is feared is lost. The steamer gnied a etew of thirty. BELGIAN VILLAGES SUBMERGED. SCENES OF DESOLATION. DAMAGE IN FRENCH CITIES. ißewivcd November 24th, 0.0 p.m.} LONDON. November 23. A very severe storm was esperi-mce-i throughout Belgium, especially ibout Termonde, where a bTeacn tighty yards long occurred in the Scheldt dykes, which collapsed owing if the high tide. This afternoon the ricinity presented a scene of desolation, recalling the war-timo sufferings i refugees. The roads were crowded tdnsi with straggling processions ot ■«h from the submerged villages, hvere trudging bare-foot on roada. Ve&ltre flooded knee deep, pushing s tneb loaded with their belongings, rSlimen, holding op their skirts, m driving live stock. The small fiiira were in a pitiful plight owing to hunger and the pitiless rain. Sua wre carried bv their parents ml suae by gendarmes. Uiitj dykes have broken down at Astferp sad elsewhere, and the wnole twKry near Crammont is submerged authorities an sending troops t ; > ssist with relief work. Many low-lying parts of France have !wa Hooded. The Somme over- | Inred. forming a great lake, over I rtki boats are carrying provisions to ttraaded people. Itee barges sank at a weir at Int. drowning a nineteen-year-old gin tod a man who dived to her Ww. A crane at Rouen crashed 4wa, killing a man. while several «dtert vera injured by falling masonry rtßheims. Great damage was done at Paris Mis)! chimney potß. Fire brigades "W tailed out 150 times to clear np wreckage. A falling door killed a man at finna, while many suffered minor inibm. HIGH WINDS ON BRITISH COAST. OTOfSIVE FLOODS ON THE CONTINENT.

' t « LONDON. November 23. anniversary of the great storm jfIJUS, when hundreds were killed or *™ *nd aea, which is marked by a wnaon," preached annually 7 Kingaway, in accordance • bookseller's thank-offering for j™afoty of his family this year was jw ccogion of great and torren- ?* which raged over the whole 'stern Europe, involving floods Vj® destruction of property. tjS® *ere high winds along the accompanied by, rough ships were in distress, and irero frequently called out . raooner yacht was driven ashore 'SupWagh Shoal. Essex, the occu {?*•• Wren men and two women jJrKfescaed bv a lifeboat. The cap severely hurt liv an explosi*- 1 pnroienm trhile lighting flares, km jl, w ' blew at BirmingMany trees were blown down irWiMnneb fear of flooding owing in the Thames, floods occurred in France Germany, manv rivers notably the Scheldt and (U-T; their tributaries. inun ®»te* „ n^re d ß of houses whose in jjh, iS re rescued on imnrovised jf, t : i~®-®bino and its tributaries HatiMti causmg the stowage " f 4r»a at| d the closing down of Plants. *t Mm.! v TOO rniVs an hour >»«« «f Vi. W , owin< ! down the 260-foot • "eioU . " Ton, ''*nstiTn* f+Ttinn int'"Tison yard, tsi datnnced French town" on Atlantic nirl O^anne' San ''* °' c bimnevs nml roofs in kin#i;i f the streets v . to a denth of inches with ends. slates.