SHIP STRANDED AMID TOMBSTONES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2339, 8 January 1926, Page 7

SHIP STRANDED AMID TOMBSTONES

INUNDATED HOLLAND LIKE AN ARCHIPELAGO Half-Mile Cataracts From Broken Dykes ENORMOUS DEVASTATION IN RHINE VALLEY [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] 1 Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] • BONBON, January 6. The ‘‘Daily News” special correspondent, flying in a monoplane, reconnoitred Holland as the only method of ascertaining the extent of the floods. Instead of , fertile country, Holland resembled an archipelago on the edge of the North Sea. Millions of acres are submerged, frequently to a depth of twenty feet. He watched villagers fleeing, boats aground in gardens, a steamer wedged in a cemetery windmills looking like lighthouses, and cataracts half a mile in length flowing from broken dykes. The damage at Liege Is estimated at a million sterling. President Hindcaburg, of Germany, has given £IO,OOO to relieve German flood victims . SUBSIDING EVERYWHERE. FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE BREAKS OUT. AMSTERDAM. January 6. The floods are subsiding everywhere except in Northern Limburg and Deventer. whore another dyke of the River Tsel burst near the village of Brummen, inundating a lange area. Foot-and-mouth disease has broken out among the cattle at Balgoy and several other villages.

THOUSANDS IN DIRE DISTRESS. SUBSIDING WATERS REVEAL MOURNFUL PICTURE. BERLIN. January' 6. The subsidence of the floods in the Rhineland is revealing enormous devastation. Twenty thousand houses wore damaged at Coblenz, and thousands of families are in dire distress Sixty thousand workers are idle. The damage is estimated at a million sterling. Neuweid suffered severely. Thousands of Inhabitants are homeless. and the factories are closed down. It will take months to recover from the disaster. A later message states that floods In the Rhineland caused a million sterling damage and 00,000 persons have been rendered Idle. AUSTRALIA'S FLOOD. DAMAGE IN WAGQA DISTRICT. SYDNEY, January 7. The railway services are seriously dislocated as the result of the storms in the Wagga district. Three washaways occurred on the Southern line and one on the Western, and considerable damage was done to the lines in each instance. The serious loss to the farmers is the destruction of the surface over a large area which was lying fallow for next season's crops. In some instances the face of the paddocks has practically been washed away. Tho rush of water burst many paddock tanks, and should a dry spell occur there will bo a serious shortage of water. WAR CEMETERIES AT MONS. COMPLETELY SUBMERGED. (Received Thursday, 7 p.m.) BRUSSELS, January 6. It Is reported from/ Mons that the flood waters have completely sub r merged the British war cemeteries. The damage at present cannot bo ascertained.