DISASTROUS FLOODS.
HUNDREDS OF DEATHS. I I mm DAMAGE IN EUROPE. INUNDATIONS IN BRITAIN. LARGE AREAS SUBMERGED. SERIOUS DAMAGE FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1.30 a.m.) Sun. LONDON. Dec. '2O. Serious floods have occurred throughout Europe and a hundred people have, been drowned in Transylvania. Special trains are succouring refugees. Thousands of horses and cattle have been drowned and boats are plying for hire in the Cologne streets. The river Seine overflowed its banks at many points and several low-lying parts of Paris are inundated. Warsaw and Belgrade are. threatened. There is widespread damage in Britain. Hundreds of miles of roads are impassable and vast areas of agricultural land are submerged. The Severn and the Wye are overflowing. The floods have assumed most alarming proportions in the northern district", of Yorkshire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19214, 31 December 1925, Page 9
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