DESPERATE FIGHT IN NORFOLK
Received Saturday, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, March 21. Reinforcements or troops have bee. sent to Southern Norfolk, the lates danger point in the Fen floods wher hundreds of soldiers and Germai prisoners are desperately trying to kee the wall of sandhags above the risin: water. Several hours of heavy rai added to the Fenland danger generally but elsewhere — though overnight raimay bring renewed * flooding — most o. the main rivers are reported to bc falling. The Thames, whose daily flow in thpast week has been 14,000,000,000 gallons — seven times norm'al — has re'cede ' considerably, but the inhabitants of thThames Valley are still suffering tto-o. difficulties of which a waterborni funeral to Windsor cemetefy with coffin and mourners travelling in punu was one of many examples.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1947, Page 5
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