STORMY ENGLAND.
RAIN, SNOW. AND FLOODS. WEATHER PHENOMENALLY COLD. DROWNING FATALITIES. Bv Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 3. !Uo p.m. London. August 5. This month is the coldest August experienced during the last half century. Th« Grampians are snow-clad. Four iegrees of frost were registered in Devonshire. Rains flooded the low country in the east of Yorkshire. The hay is floating away and the crops arc rotting. The livere Dee and Severn are flooding thousands of acres. The hav and corn is submerged. At the Dulwich scouts mission camp at Sheernees, a cutter containing 23 lads and five adults capsized. Nine boys were frowned. Coastguardsmen rowed two miles and picked up the survivors. Eighty members of the Caius College Mission, Battersea, were camping at Brighton. While l>uthing one of the lads was seized with cramp. Three comrades attempted to rescue him. but all were drowned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 67, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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144STORMY ENGLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 67, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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