Floods Follow Fire And Earthquake
(N.Z.P.A.-
— Reuter
Copyright)
Keceivea Fnaay, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, July 2. Reuter 's Tokio correspondent states that lloods now threaten Fukui City already stricken by earthquakes and fire. The waters of the Ketzuryu River spilled over their banks early today and a police warning said the dykes were ahout to break. Qne report said a- temporary wooden hridge outside Fukui City erected to serve in place of the hridge destroyed by earthquakes had been washed away, cutting the communication lines to. the northern areas of the city. Thousands of persons from Fqkui have been sent to the river to help strengthen the dykes.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19480703.2.24.2
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 3 July 1948, Page 5
Word Count
107Floods Follow Fire And Earthquake Chronicle (Levin), 3 July 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in