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nathemarkable attempt to defy the forces of|

is about to be made on the Kentish coast.

The chalk cliffs of old Albion are to be treated with a course of "injections" to enable them to withstand the ravages of the ever-encroaching sea.

NO NATIONAL POLICY

But this additional land Is of no

The idea is to give the cliffs a "filling" of cementation, to solidify the crumbling chalk, and so make it both rainproof and sea-water proof. great value. The process of accre-

Experimental treatment, will be tion has been mainly in river estuar tried out on the cliffs between ies and bays, and is seen in the wide Minnis Bay and Grenham Bay, near stretches of sand which, at some re- Margate.

sorts, make it ever more difficult

Tons and tons of cement will be for the holiday maker to reach the pumped into the cliff face, and if sea.

successful, the work will be extend-

YOUNGEST GRANDMOTHER CLAIM AT 32

"Britain's youngest grand- mother" is the claim made f Mrs. Florence Modecai, Lans- bury-crescent, Maesteg, Glam.

Mrs. Mordecai is 32 years of age, and her grandchild is the son of her 17-year-old daughter. Mrs. Florence Dorothy Brown, of the same address.

ed. The scheme, which has origin- ated in Margate, is receiving the sympathetic consideration of several local authorities along the South

Coast.

Innumerable local authorities have to make provision for sea defence. In some areas, the rates levied for this purpose amount to nearly 28. in the pound.

There is, however, no national | policy to prevent erosion, and local methods of defence in one area often increase the difficulties neighbouring areas.

of

With the approach of the winter months and the accompanying gales and heavy seas, individual efforts are now to be made to prevent fur- ther extensive havoc and damage.

HONEYCOMBED CLIFFS

Only last winter there were gig-

His M Carol of Rou panied the tion in the

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antic falls all along the coast. In one place, at St. Margaret's Bay, near Deal, the biggest fall on re- cord took place. More than 10,000 tons of chalk, extending for nearly

The Vauxhal Seaside authorities in many areas a quarter of a mila inland from the have had to meet heavy expenditure edge of the cliffs, slid into the sea triler 1,00

40-m.p.g. On in clearing away debris and mak-and made a "peninsula" stretching the 10 h.p. Sal ing the cliff safe against further nearly half a mile out into the Eng- falls.

lish Channel.

Experts state that the dozens of the subterranean springs which honey- comb the cliffs assist the winter seas in their work.

Erosion is due to a large extent to the incessant beating of waves against unprotected cliffs.

It is estimated that the sea eats into the cliffs at the rate of about three feet every year.

At Dover, last winter, more than 6,000 tona of cliff fell into the back Over of period of 35 years some gardens at Archcliffe Fort, a thick- thing like 6,000 acres of land from ly populated part of the town, and open sea fronts have been washed so dangerous was the remaining overhanging chalk, that it was even- Some compensation, it is true, has tually removed by artificial means, been gained on other parts of the which entailed several months of coast by the silting process of the work. tides, which have added 48,000 acres to the extent of the country.

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