Flood Situation in Britain Nearing Crisis
LONDON, Wednesday.--The flood situation in Britain is growing graver hourly as more rivers overflow their banks to inundate hundreds of square miles of country…
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Flood Crisis Near Dislocation In Britain Desperate Bid by Army Men
LONDON, Wednesday.--The flood situation in Britain is growing grayer hourly as more rivers overflow their banks to inundate hundreds of square miles of country…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--The flood situation in Britain is growing graver hourly as more rivers overflow their banks to inundate…
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Heavy flooding followed an almost phenomenal rainstorm last Thursday, the like of which has not been witnessed for a great number of years. The whole…
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AFTER probably the severest winter they have ever experienced, thousands of families living in the river valleys of the fen country…
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LONDON, March 19. — Parts of the Cambridgeshire fen country, swept by the floods which are ravaging 30…
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LONDON, Thursday.--Only five of England's 40 counties have not yet been affected by floods, which were said last night to be growing more critical hourly. The five counties unaffected…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--The great floods sweeping England will make food shorter than ever in…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The flood situation in Britain is becoming more critical hourly. It is a battle against surging rivers, broken hanks, and rising waters…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The flood situation in Britain is becoming more critical hourly. It is a battle against surging rivers, broken banks, and rising waters…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The flood situation in Britain is becoming more critical hourly. It is a battle against surging rivers, broken banks, and rising waters…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The flood situation in Britain is becoming more critical hourly. It is a battle against surging rivers, broken banks, and rising waters…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The flood situation in Britain is becoming more critical hourly. It is a battle against surging rivers, broken banks, and rising waters…
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I HAVE by me here a cutting from one of our great metropolitan dailies of a brief report of a coroner's inquest into the tragic…
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LONDON, March 20.— Every hour Britain's flood disaster grows[?] worse. Rain continues, the thaw is spreading…
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AFTER BLITZES, food shortages, blizzards, and the big freeze, England is now experiencing the worst floods for many years. This radiophoto from London shows section of "a mile of men" filling sandbags to check a flooded river…
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LONDON, Thursday.--While the great flood in England is getting worse, the British people are…
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LONDON, Friday. -- The battle against flood waters in many parts of Britain is still going on, and the situation in a number of districts is described as critical…
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LONDON, Friday. -- The baffle against floodwaters in many parts of Britain is still going on, and the situation in a number of districts is described as critical…
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LONDON, Friday, -- The battle against flood- waters in many parts of Britain is stilt going on, and the situation in a number of districts is described as critical…
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