BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18837, 2 June 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

PRICES OF NECESSARIES. DEPARTMENT STORES’ REDUCTIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (United Sendee. l LONDON, May .11. Following America’.- example, Sclfridgc’s advertise that they are reducing clothing and boot prices by 10 per cent anti groceries by 5 per cent, pointing out that owing to the high prices America had ceased to buy British gootis and Australia’s order is much smaller. Other firms are expected to imitate the example. THE LINCOLNSHIRE DISASTER. OVER 700 PEOPLE HOMELESS, LONDON, May 31. The damage at Louth is estimated at £350,000. Over 700 persons are homeless. The river rose six feel in 40 minutes and swept through the town at 40 miles an hour. About 1000 houses were damaged. DAMAGE AT IIORNCASTLE. HARROWING INCIDENTS AT LOUTH. LONDON, May 31. (Received June 1. 10.5 p.m.i

Horncestle, twelve miles south-west of Louth, was isolated from Saturday until today, the roads being flooded to a depth of five feet and the railways impassable. Great damage was done to property, but no lives were lost. Pedestrians in the Manchester district only saved themselves on the high roads by swimming with the flood waters. There is terrible desolation in Louth, tons of debris lying everywhere amidst black mud, including motor cars, pianos, and bedding. Several children were trapped on the ground floor of a house. The mother vainly tried to save them hy piling up the furniture and putting them on fop. In another ease a mother made her children climb on to a high dresser and hang on to honks in the ceiling when the dresser collapsed, until three children let go the hooks and were drowned. The mother and one child were saved.