DISASTER THREATENED
UNSEASONABLE WEATHER IN EUROPE. AGRICULTURISTS APPRENHENSIVE. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received-March 17, 1.25 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. Unseasonably spring-like weather in Western Europe threatens disaster to Switzerland where, owing to a drought unprecedented for a century, the waters of the Rhine and the Rhone have subsided. In them fish are being caught by hand. A large stone has been exposed in Lake Geneva inscribed with the date 1862 and the words: "When I am seen again the world will be in tears.” The hotels are emptying owing to the exodus of Alpine climbers. Agriculturists are apprehensive of disaster if the rains exnected from the Alps are much longer delayed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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109DISASTER THREATENED New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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