HEAVY DAMAGE
TORRENTIAL RAIN IN ENCLAND
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, May 22
The floods have caused hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of damage throughout England. Torrential rains fell, which broke the record for fifty years past, in many districts, causing the most Serious floods;
Particularly severe wei'e' the' flobds in Yorkshire, where scores of farmsteads were cut off, the Ivatel* converting the fields into lakes, washing ft way- the corn and potatoes, and killing poultry. Six hundred shops «nd one thousand houses in Derby were .inundated. Hundreds of roads in the North of England wei'e made impassable,
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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100HEAVY DAMAGE Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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