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UNDER WATER.

FLOODS IN GERMANY.

BRIDGES WRECKED

GREAT DAMAGE DONE,

POPULACE FLEEING TO HIGH

GROUND

Received February 7, 4.35 p.m

BERLIN, February 6.

Extraordinary floods are being experienced in Saxony, Thuriniga, Bavaria and Tyrol, owing to the sudden melting of the snow. Whole towns are under water, and railway communication in many parts of Saxony is interrupted.

Many bridges have been wrecked.^

"The Lihn Valley (through which the Lahn River an important affluent of the River Rhine in its middle course runs) is a vast lake. The River Rhine is expected to reach the danger point daily. At Nuremberg (a city in the .Bavarian province of Middle Franeonia) the Reghitz River (a subaffluent of the Main)rose twelve feet in the night. The rain water is rushing through the streets like a mill stream.

Considerable damage has been done.

The population at Frankfort (a wealthy commercial city in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassan, on the right bank of the River Main) .an 1 Bamberg (a Bavarian city in Upper Franconia, on the Regnitz River, and 33 miles north of Nuremberg) are fleeing to high ground. Kissinge (the most popular watering place in Bavaria, on the Saale River, 60 miles from Frankfort-on Main) is under water. The three famous saline springs—the water from which is both drunk and used as a bath, and is considered specially efficacious in cases of dyspepsia, akin diseases, gout, etc.—are flooded, and the Casino is inundated. The River Danube at Regensburg (a town in Bavaria on the Danube's right bank) rose ten feet in the night.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3110, 8 February 1909, Page 5

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UNDER WATER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3110, 8 February 1909, Page 5

UNDER WATER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3110, 8 February 1909, Page 5

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