PEOPLE FLEEING FROM FLOODS
PLIGHT OF MANY GERMANS AND POLES
WORST INUNDATIONS FOR 150 YEARS
(11.15 a.m.) Over 20,000 Germans are Berlin from the worst floods for
~.. HAMBURG, March 26. fleeing from the Oder area into 150 years, says the Hamburg radio, Two hundred persons are reported to have been drowned. Defence .squads have been formed to protect empty houses from looters, It is stated that they have already fired on thieves operating in small boats. Berlin radio stated that 8000 people are cut off in the flooded areas. According to the Warsaw radio, 50,000 people are homeless in what the Polish Prime Minister, M. Cyrankiewicz, described as the worst floods in the history of Poland. Several suburbs are under water from the flooding of the Vistula. People are sitting on rooftops clinging to chimneys.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22290, 27 March 1947, Page 5
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