GREAT AVALANCHES VALLEY OF CHAMONIX SMOTHERED
GENEVA LAKES FILLED UP. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright,) , (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES,) PARIS, Ist April. The Valley of Chamonix is smothered in avalanches, the show reaching to the third floor of the houses. The lakes on the road to Geneva are filled up. An avalanche at Grassounet followed the course of the street. Whole trees were brought from the hillside and deposited there. \ A landslide at Brives extendsMor a square mile of the mountain side, and is still moving. [The Valley of Chamonix lies at the foot of the Monfc Blanc chain, which, with its huge ice-cata,raots, the Glaciers dv Tour, d'Argentiere, and the Mer de Glace, form the fiouth-Eastem boundary. The_ Valley of Chamonix is considered to be inferior to the Bernese Oberland in picturesqueness of scenery, but superior in the grandeur of its glaciers, in which respect it has no rival but Zermatt.J
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 7
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