FLOODING IN ENGLAND
Eeceived Sunday, !>.5h p.m, LONDUN, Dec. 1. While a gale was raging in tlie knglisii ('liannel heavy rain caused ex I 'msi \ e but t liusfar shallow flooding in many districts in Hritain. Tlie Thames overflowod its valley, Oxfordshire and Iterksliire being niost affected. Tlie river Avon rose three feet in 12 liours causing the water to spread to Evesham and Rath. The river Medway, in Kent, Ihreaten.s to overflow. Tlie earl'ier lloods in Ihe Rother Valley between Hastings and Rye liave been exfended.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1946, Page 2
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