FLOODS IN FRANCE.
EURSTING OF VILLAGE DYKES, (United Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, January 8. Recalling the stories of bursting dykes in the Netherlands in the middlo ages, the inhabitants of the village of Laronde, near La Rochelle, were awakened by the beating of drums and told that the dykes had burst. , Families worked throughout the night and all to-day repairing the river banks, while their household possessions were floating in the streets.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 75, 10 January 1936, Page 4
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