WORST FOR YEARS
BREACH TORN IN DYKE LONDON, February 11. One person was killed and 3,000 were rendered homeless when flood water tore a breach in a dyke along the Emscher River, between Gelsenlkirchen, Horst, and Heme, near the Ruhr industrial area. Policemen and firemen rescued people by cranes from houses where the water had reached the upper floor. Rest centres and emergency homes were hastily established for the homelees. Mothers with children were billeted in private homes, and the British military authorities provided vehicles to assist the evacuation. Hilversum radio also announces that torrential rains tore a breach in the Scheldt dyke, near the Belgian-Dutch frontier, flooding square miles of country. Volunteers, including Boy Scouts, filled in the 33ft gap and the dyke was reinforced by specialised workers. The floods in the Rhineland, according to Hamburg radio, are the worst for 35 years. Water is rushing down the Rhine Valleys at a sipeea of 10 knots, and the rivers Marne, Moselle, and Necker are still .rising. Several bridges have been swept away.
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Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 5
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173WORST FOR YEARS Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 5
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