EUROPE STORM-SWEPT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7

EUROPE STORM-SWEPT

SERIOUS DAMAGE. FAMOUS RESORTS FLOODED. DEATHS DUE TO LIGHTNING. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association)) LONDON, Sept.,.lß. Remarkably warm, late summer weather over the greater part of Europe, has culminated in a series of terrific thunderstorms. Two farm workers wore billed and three injured by lightning while sheltering under a tree in Sussex. Lightning was also responsible for the death of a boy and his father in Oxfordshire. Great damage was done throughout France. particularly in Brittany, where the famous holiday resorts of St. Malo, Dinard and Dinan have been flooded for the past two days. This is unprecedented Tehre are 120 persons homeless in St. Malo. Three people were washed down the river Ranee at Dinan, their bodies being recovered miles below. Two deaths were due to lightning. Raging tropical storms have torn up streets and rendered roads impassable ; many houses are flooded. Stretches of railway In Brittany havo been washed away; a train passing St. Brieuc. in Brittany, was buried by a landslide. , There is a heavy sea m the Mediteranean and many wine barrels have been washed to sea from riverside stores.

BENEFICIAL RAIN IN ENGLAND.

(Australian Press Association). LONDON, Sept. 18. The record drought has been partially broken up by torrential rains in South England. London lias not benefited and tho Water Board .is again appealing for the strictest economy.