ROUGH WEATHER
CABLE NEW?
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EXPERIENCED !H BRITAIN
THOUSANDS OF AGUES FLOODED
(Received Ln.-t Night, 3.15 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 5
The coldest August for half a century has been experienced. The Grampians arc snow-chid, and four degrees of frost were registered.
Rains flooded the low country in East Yorkshire. Hay is floating on the water, and the crops are rotting.
The rivers Dee and Severn arc flooding thousands of acres, hay and corn crops being submerged.
DROWNING FATALITIES
NUMBER OF BOYS DRQW.NED
(.Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 5. The Dulwich Scouts mission, while encamping at Slieerness, had a cutter containing 23 lads and five adults capsized. Nine boys were drowned. The coastguardsmen rowed two miles and picked up the survivors. Eighty members of the Caius College mission of Battcrsea, camping at Brighton were bathing, when a lad Avas seized with cramps. Three comrades attempted to rescue him, but all were drowned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10687, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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159ROUGH WEATHER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10687, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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