FLOODS IN EUROPE.
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. _ POSITION IN HOLLAND. MILLIONS OF ACRES SUBMERGED (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.j LONDON, Jan. 7. The ‘‘Daily News” special correspondent, flying by monoplane, reconnoitered Holland only, without method, ascertaining the extent or the floods. Holland resembled an archipelago on the edge of the North Sea. Millions of acres are submerged, frequently to the depth of twenty feet. The correspondent watched the villagers fleeing, lroats aground in gardens. a steamer wedged in a cemetery, windmills looking like lighthouses and cataracts half a mile in length flowing from broken dykes. The damage at Leige is estimated at one million sterling. BERLIN, Jan. 6. President Hindeburg has' given ten thousand sterling to relieve Germany f}oo4 yictims,
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 2
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121FLOODS IN EUROPE. Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 2
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