GALE SWEEPS FRENCH TOWNS.
PROPERTY DAMAGED AND LIVES LOST. AERIALS OF EIFFEL TOWER WRECKED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigrht. Sydney “ Sun “ Cable. (Received December 26, 10.40 a.m.) PARIS, December 25.^ A gale wrecked the aerials on the Eiffel Tower, preventing broadcasting, and overturned a ferry boat while it was crossing the River Seine. Nine persons were drowned. Several persons were injured in Rheims by collapsing walls. The gale razed tombstones in Clermont, leaving the cemetery like a shelltorn battlefield.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17729, 26 December 1925, Page 2
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