NATIONAL DISASTER.
Serious Effects of Floods in Poland. (Continued from page 1.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 23, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. The Warsaw correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” says that eight soldiers, twelve policemen and four Boy Scouts sacrificed their lives trying to rescue peasants from trees and roofs. Fifty thousand families are homeless. Typhoid has developed at Tarnopol. Members of the Cabinet report that the flood is a national disaster of the first magnitude. Already £IOO.OOO has been subscribed to relieve the sufferers. The poorest villages contributed bread, and railwaymen and civil servants 2 per cent of their month’s wages. The inhabitants of the devastated districts have been granted a moratorium on their debts and taxes. The “ Chronicle’s ” Warsaw correspondent says that the destruction of the famous Poniatowski bridge is feared. The entire military and police forces, assisted by thousands of volunteers, are joining in the rescue work. The zoological gardens, the President’s official residence in the suburb of Zamek and also Villanov Castle are threatened.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 7
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