FLOODS IN MACEDONIA.
HEAVY DEATHROLL FEARED. London, March 16. The Daily Express's Athens correspondent reports that violent deluges occurred in Macedonia, Southern Serbia ami Thessaly. Swollen rivers swept away entire villages, arid the terror-stricken people are taking refuge "in" the mountains. Thousands, are homeless, and a heavy death-roll is feared. Rain is still falling heavily. The Salonika ahd Kavalla regions are converted into ' a huge lake. Hundreds of people, half demented by fear climbed to the roofs or tops ot trees, where they are kept prisoner by the floods. Whole herds of cattle and flocks of sheep were drowned, j
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Otaki Mail, 19 March 1923, Page 3
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