EUROPEAN FLOODS.
STILL VERY BAD. THOUSANDS DROWNED. ..coo aooouaOion —hlccuic XeicKrupn—Oopyn LONDO--., Monday. The floods are rising mi juguout Britiau, espee-ari/ in mo vaneys of tira 1 names, tne govern, me Wye ana me Avon. Landslides and railway subsidences are irerpieiu. Hundreds of families have been compelled to evacuate tneir Homes. Thousands of dwellers in bungalows in the Thames \ alley are marooned owing to id days’ rani. Reports from the Continent show that at Cue ns, 60,000 inhabitants were isolated for three days. Men waded breast high, carrying milk for babies and invalids. There are 250,000 workless • in Belgium, where, rations of bully beef and biscuits are being served out. Thousands' in Hungary ara still clinging to the roofs of submerged houses, dying of starvation and ex-, posure. Thousands were drowned in Rouniania owing to sudden floods sweeping u.wiiv factories and bridges. —Sun.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1926, Page 5
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143EUROPEAN FLOODS. Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1926, Page 5
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