FLOODS IN HOLLAND.
STORMS ARE CAUSING SECOND INUNDATION. A CATASTROPHE PEA REIT fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. AMSTERDAM. February 17. A storm is imperilling fresh districts .0 Holland. "Waters arc rushing iu at Monniekendani and the inhabitants are again evacuating. The Volcndain railway dyke, between Furniernnd and Oitstzaam. has been destroyed, threatening a fresh catastrophe. Large forces of troops are striving to stem the floods. ■ The rupture of the dykes at Saismoer, near 'Amsterdam, appears inevitable and would involve several polders (tracts of marshy laud lower than the sea).
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 10
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87FLOODS IN HOLLAND. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 10
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