RIVER BREAKS THROUGH
LONDON, March 18. Late last night, with a thunderlike roar, the swollen river broke throug!) at Soham Lode, the keypoint, at lirst through a four-yard gap, which rapidlv widened to 60 yards, through whicli cascaded a mighty torrent. By early morning over 2000 acres and ! i'our farms were under tlireo feet of water, which was still rising.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 54, 19 March 1937, Page 7
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