DISASROUS LANDSLIDE
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED TERRIBLE WAVE OF MUD i VILLAGES OVERWHELMED i By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 25, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 24. Twenty people were killed and 50 houses destroyed by a landslide at Rogue Billiere, the result of torrential rains. The adjacent village of Belvedere is also threatened with annihilation owing to an adjacent mountain side slipping. A great wave of mud is flowing near Belvedere and Roquebillicre in the Alpes Maritimes and near the baths of Berthemont, with their sulphur springs. The combined populations, numbering 3500, have evacuated the towns after desperate efforts to stem the flow of mud. Beneath Belvedere a great crevice has opened, and the inhabitants of the smaller villages are preparing to evacuate them, though the roads have been obliterated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1926, Page 7
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