SERIOUS FLOODS
IN SCHELDT VALLEY. (Australian Press Association.) (United Service.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 28. Tlie floods in Belgium are the worst for half a century. Fifty villages arc partly under water. The dykes hurst so rapidly in many places that the villagers had only just time to save their lives. Bonds and railways are cut in some districts, resulting in Brussels and Antwerp Being without vegetables and milk. The shipyards, metal-works and brickyards along the Scheldt are badly damaged. Many houses collapsed. There was considerable damage done by the gale to the whole Belgian coast. The total damge runs into many millions of francs. The Government has created an emergency relief fund.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 6
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111SERIOUS FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 6
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