FLOOD THREAT TO

SEVERN TOWNS

WATER 4FT. DEEP IN YORKSHIRE VILLAGE

Rising flood waters in many parts of the country are threatening homes, and at Shrewsbury, where the Severn at Montford Bridge is 2ft. above the danger level, trestles for pedestrians have been put up and people wamed to be ready to leave their homes.

At Worcester the racecourse is flooded as well as many:fields below the city, and riverside dwellers fear that they may be marooned for the second time in 10 months.

In some areas-in Wensleydale, Montgomeryshire, and Cardiganshire-the floods are subsiding. The position on the Conway in Denbighshire, where thousands of acres were flooded for the second time last week, has also improved.

At Allerton Bywater, a village near Castleford, Yorkshire, where the Aire overflowed, 200 people were marooned in bedrooms, and water flooded two public houses, four shops, and 70 houses to a depth of 4ft. At Castleford, where the rivers Aire and Calder meet, the water was 12ft. above normal.

- POSITION EASIER

Flooding in the Derwent Valley of Yorkshire has increased. At Stamford Bridge watcr penetrated into the kitchen of the New Inn, and other houses were being threatened. It is thought that the position may be easier to-day. Hundreds of acres of land along both banks of the Derwent are under water. At Malton the river had risen 3ft. in a day after 12 hours' incessant rain. Houses at Pickering are cut off.

The Avon at Bath, after nearly an inch of rain during the week-end, was 6ft. above normal, and is still rising.

A landslide has blocked the LancasterClapham road. The R.A.C. stated last night that there were floods on the Otley-Ilkley, Leeds-Harrogate-Ripon and Leeds-Tadcaster main roads in Yorkshire. The WrexhamWhitchurch (Shropshire) road was flooded and traffic was being diverted by Overton. Floods on the Welshpool-Shrewsbury and Welshpool.

Newtown roads are reported by the police to be subsiding.

Flood water on the Aire and Calder canal held up about 30 vessels at a lock at Knottingley West Riding. It is hoped to get them away tibs morning.