TORRENTIAL RAINS
WIDE-SPREAD FLOODS. INHABITANTS READY TO LEAVE VILLAGES. ODER A MiMERGAU ISOL ATED. (United Press Assn —By Electric T el eg raph—Copy rig hi;.) BERLIN, May 15. The upper Rhine lias risen peven feet in twelve hours as the result of a hundred hours’ torrential rains. Rivers and lakes in southern Germany are flooded. Thousands of acres of land are under water. The inhliaitants fear that they will be compelled to leave the villages, especially the Black Forest, where the streams are higher than during the great floods of Isß2 and 1896.
Baden Government is already organising relief for the homeless. Oberammcrgau, where the Passion Play is attracing tfens of thousands of people, is threaten.! with isolation. .Several local lines are already under water, while incessant rain is spoiling the performances. The river Isar reached the level of the 1924 disaster.
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Inangahua Times, 17 May 1930, Page 1
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