FLOODS IN GERMANY
RIVERS RISING RAPIDLY. MANY LIVES LOST. SITUATION AT DRESDEN FRECARIOUS. Received February 8, 9 a.m. BERLIN, February 7. The Rivers Rhine, Elbe, Main', Danube, and Oder are rising stead ily. Many lives have already been lost. The situationMn Dresden (the capital of Saxony) is most precarious. The ice on the Elbe has broken into huge floes thirty centimetres thick. Enormous crowds from the countryside are assembling in the city to watch the ice crashing into the bridges. It has already destroyed the scaffulding of the nearly-completed Augustus bridge. ICE FLOES MELTING. THE DANGER PAST. Recieved February 8, 11.80 p.m. BERLIN, February 8. The ice floes at Dresden are melting and the danger is past. Some of the western streams are abating.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3111, 9 February 1909, Page 5
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124FLOODS IN GERMANY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3111, 9 February 1909, Page 5
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