STORMS IN ENGLAND.
TIDAL WAVE AT WEYMOUTH. Floods Do Much Damage. LONDON, March 1. England has been swept by a sixty-mile-an-hour gale. Liners were unable to reach port, There were many casualties, particularly in the swollen rivei regions. The Thames Valley was flooded, and the bungalow‘ residents there were isolated. February’s rainfall in Britain was double the normal fall. A strange incident occurred at Weymouth, whore two hundred children Were marooned at the Palace Cinema, which is near the beach, as during a performance, a tidal wave flooded the low-lying parts of the town of Weymouth, and it was impossible for the .children to leave the picture palace. Rescue parties, including the anxious parents, waded waist deep through the flood to rescue tho children, who were excited, but there was no panic.
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Grey River Argus, 2 March 1927, Page 5
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132STORMS IN ENGLAND. Grey River Argus, 2 March 1927, Page 5
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