FLOODS IN ENGLAND
INCREASING IN EXTENT
(British OlTlcial Wireless.)
(Received January 2, 12.20 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 1
Floods due to the recent heavy rains are still increasing in seriousness and extent.
The Thames continues to rise all along its course from Oxford clown to Teddington, where the rate of flow reached 7,500,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours, which is a rise of 4.000,000 gallons on yesterday's rate. Wide areas in Kent and Sussex, around Bristol, and in East Midland, as well as in the Thames Valley, are under water to depths varying from ten inches to more than 'two feet.
Near Windsor the Thames is a mile wide. Many roads are impassable in all these areas, and traffic has been diverted to higher roads, often involving considerable detours. Damage due to inundation is steadily mounting. The Great Western railway reported that a large bridge in Wiltshire is subsiding and a section of the line had to be closed as a precaution and traffic diverted to other routes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 9
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