Whole of Hereford County Isolated
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Reeeived Friday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, March 21. The floads were still winmng in the Fenlands last fiight despite an all-day battle by more than. 1000 troops and prisoners of war. While Army lorries brought up niaterial to stop the breaches it. the river banks cattle-laden triicks moved in the opposite d.rection to Iiigher groiind and families made a melaneholy trek with theii possessions in vans, handcarts anci perambulators. Oue- gleam of hope is the slight drop in the river levels all over the Fenland. The situation in Herefordshire is repo'rted to have reached a state of unpreeodented senousBess with the Wye fioods practically isolat ing the whole eountry. Conditions are bad in Yorkshire where Doncaster is under water and serious fiooding is expected it: York. There is a slight improvenient at Oxford and Maidenhead in the Thames Valley. Men closed a 60-foot break in the bank of the River Glen west of Spalding. In Lincolnshire the floods in the Dee Valley are subsiding and th Trent began to fall at Notting hani. The Severn also droppef nearly tliree feet.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1947, Page 5
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