FLOODS IN EUROPE.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1926, Page 1

FLOODS IN EUROPE.

STILL RISING IN BRITAIN

AVORKLESS STARVING AND DYING

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.,

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 5

TJie floods are rising throughout Britain, especially in the valleys of tho Thames, Severn, AA’ye and Avon. Landslides and railway subsidences are frequent. Hundreds of families were compelled to evacuate their homes, while thousands of dwellers in bungalows ill the Thames A'alley are marooned owing to fifteen days’ rain.

Reports from the Continent show that at Cacns sixty thousand inhabitants were isolated for three days. Men waded breast high carrying milk for babies and invalids. Two hundred and fifty thousand are workless in Belgium, where rations of bully beef and biscuits were served out.

The Queen of Holland is visiting the villages. Thousands in Hungary are still clinging to the roofs of their submerged hoTises. They arc dying of starvation and exposure. Thousands were drowned in Rouinani:i owing to tho sudden floods sweeping away factories and bridges. The R-ughv wireless station came to the rescue of darkened AA’arwich and Leamington whose power stations weic flooded. Uughv is no supplying all current tor light to both cities. Ihe Post Office, when erecting the Rugby station, doubly guarded against failure of their own power resources by connecting cables to the AAanvieh and Leamington power stations, hut it was never anticipated tho process wherefore Hie cables were laid would he reversed.