FLOODS IN ATHENS
MANY DEATHS REPORTED. TORRENTS RUN IN STREETS MUCH DAMAGE CAUSED. BY CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received Nov*. 26, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 25. The Athens correspondent of the Daily Express. reports that numerous deaths were caused by floods. The latter were due to a sudden torrential rain which transformed the avenues ol Athens .into canals, making the city resemble Venice, with turbulent floods of yellow water rushing down the streets. Trees were uprooted, bridges washed away, and vehicles were swept into the gutters. A number of houses fell to pieces in an encampment where refugees .sheltered on the outskirts of the city, the inmates being swept' away by the swift current and drowned. Some girls were drowned in the middle of Athens and numbers of spectators were powerless to assist them. The damage is estimated at £13,000. —Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 November 1925, Page 5
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