FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
MOST SEVERE FOR TWENTY YEARS. ' 13y Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 0. Hie greatest floods for twenty years have occurred in the Thames valley . LOSSIES OF STOCK. SCHOOLS FLOODED OUT. London, January C. Continued rain and a high spring tide caused the flooding of the ' upper reaches of t'lie Thames. Cattle and pii*s were swept away, and children have had rm ° of the flooded schools, ine Eton playfields and Oxford Parkare lakes. At Reading the bakers and grocers are delivering goods from their upper windows. Lighthouse-keepers on the coast Slave teen cut ofl from supplies for five weeks owing to tho heavy weather. A CANADIAN TROOPER. DBOWftiiD. [ Received 0, 10.50 p.m. ' r , . London, January 'O. _ Considerable damage was done in the len country in Somerset. Salisbury Cathedral was flooded. _ Access to the camp at Salisbury Phin is impeded, and a member of the Canadian force was drowned Oxford is surrounded by water.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 8
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154FLOODS IN ENGLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 8
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