100,000 Evacuate Flooded Winnipeg

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2006

Date Released

22 May 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Biggest Flying Boat Takes Shape
2. 2100,000 Evacuate Flooded Winnipeg
3. 3Gubbio Revives Age-Old Race Through City
4. 4London Ghq for Atlantic Powers
5. 5Snorter First Pictures: Breathing Device Gives Submarines Ocean Range

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

Plight of Canadian city now desperate. Mass exodus takes care of sick and aged while 50,000 men and women work day and night on dykes.

Keywords

Weather; Accidents and disasters; Engineering

Library number

18648

Length of story (in feet)

105

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Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Notes

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