RAINS IN ENGLAND
CABLE NEWS
(United Preal Aisodation—By JBketew Teiegrash—Copyright.)
SUBSIDING EVERYWHERE
EIGHTY BRIDGES DESTROYED
(Received this morninsz, .12.15 o'clock.) LONDON, August ■ The floods are everywhere subsiding. The railways are reopening.
A relief fund has been opened at Norwich. Coleman's mustard manufacturers are contributing £IOOO. A square mile of streets was inundated, and eighty bridges in East Anglia destroyed. Doctor H. R. Mill, director of the British Rainfall Association, attributes August's persistent rain to some obscure variation in tho ocean temperature. He states that it is desirable with a view to tho improvement of the weather forecasts, to undertake a closer study of the temperature of the ocean.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10707, 30 August 1912, Page 5
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108RAINS IN ENGLAND Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10707, 30 August 1912, Page 5
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