As parts of Britain suffer from flooding in America they are working to prevent the Missis...(1929)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Floods around Windsor and Eton and flood defence being built along the Mississippi River in the USA. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION - ’SOS Growing menace of appalling floods throughout country calls for immediate action by authorities’ ENGLAND: EXT Swollen River Thames surging along / flooded street / floodwater around houses SLATE INFORMATION - ’ of a thousand other localities’ Berkshire: Windsor: Eton schoolboys in tail coats and top hats walking along makeshift bridge over floodwater / car along through floodwater / lorry along through floodwater / horse led through floodwater SLATE INFORMATION - ’Playing fields of Eton’ Eton: Flooded playing fields of Eton College SLATE INFORMATION - ’The Mississippi is also liable to Americans counteract it in advance’ USA: Flood defe