FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
SEVEREST FOR TWENTY YEARS. CANADIAN CONTINCENTER DROWNED IN CAMP. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Prebb (Association.]
London, January 6. The greatest floods for twenty years have occurred in the Thames valley. Continued rain and a high spring tide caused the flooding of the upper reaches of the Thames. Cattle and pigs were swept away, and. children have had to be shut out of the flooded schools. The Eton playfields and Oxford Park are lakes. At Reading the bakers and grocers are delivering goods from their upper windows. Lighthouse-keepers on the coast have been cut off from supplies for five weeks owing to the heavy weather. Considerable damage was done in the fern country in Somerset. Salisbury Cathedral was flooded. Access to the camp at Salisbury Plain is impeded, and a member of the Canadian force was drowned. Oxford is surrounded by water.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 2
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144FLOODS IN ENGLAND. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 2
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