WORST STORM OF THE YEAR
By Telegraph—Press Ass.—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). .London, .January 1. Lite year 1925 was literally blown out in the year's worst gale- Vast areas of Britain and the Continent was flooded, and the position is so serious in Belgium, Germany and Holland that the Governments are obliged to undertake rescue and relief measures. TOWN’S AND VILLAGES .ISOLATED. Brussels,. January ill. The bursting of the Meuse dykes, owing to the floods, swamped the Belgian coalfields and inundated 25,000 houses. Hundreds of cattle were dorwned. Berlin, December 31. The Danube, .Rhino, and Kibe Valleys are inundated, and towns and villages isolated by floods. Only the hill on which, the Cathedral stands is pot submerged. Thousands of people are homeless.
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Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 672, 2 January 1926, Page 5
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