DISASTER FEARED
AN UNSEASONABLE SPRINQ. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 17, 1.45 a.m. LONDON, March 15. The unseasonable spring-llltS weather in Western Europe threatensdisaster in Switzerland, where, owing . to drought unprecedented for a century, the waters of the Rhine have subsided, fish being caught by hand. • - A large stone exposed in Lake Gcnova is inscribed with the dale, "1862," "When 1 am seen again the world will he in tears.'' The hotels are emptying, owing to exodus of Alpine climbers. „",^. Agriculturists are apprehensive disaster if the rains, expected from" " the Alps, arc longer delayed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14616, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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96DISASTER FEARED Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14616, 17 March 1921, Page 5
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