RAIN IN ENGLAND
FIVE DAYS' DOWNPOUR SEVERAL PARTS FLOODED. \ (British Official News.) Press Association —By SVireless—Copyright. RUGBY, September IS. (Received September lb, at noon.) For the fifth day in succession very heavy rain fell yesterday over the greater part of Central and Southern England. Flooding has occurred at several places. The Thames rose sft in two days, and the total rainfall for the Jive days largely exceeds what is normal for the whole of September in most of the central, southern, and eastern counties. In the Avon valley the river overflowed its banks, and the lower stories of many houses had to be vacated. Considerable areas of meadowland were converted into lakes. Fruit, root, and cereal crops suffered, and some ' sheep and cattle were drowned.
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Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 5
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125RAIN IN ENGLAND Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 5
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