STORM IN BRITAIN
RIVERS STILL RISING. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Dec. 13. The patrols which are watching the dam which holds hack the floods which are menacing Bridgewater are now armed, in order to protect the bank from the desperate villagers, who, in the effort to save their homes, threaten to cut the bank which stretches across Sedgemoor. A crisis will be reached on Wednesday next, when the tide attains its peak. Meanwhile the north-western gale continues, driving the tides up the river from the Channel. Unfortunately the dykes are banks, and not breakwaters designed to withstand the lashing of waves, so that the wind is a worse foe than the river water.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1929, Page 5
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115STORM IN BRITAIN Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1929, Page 5
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