An area of 750 acres” was flooded, many houses were inundated, and pigs and poultry were drowned when the Albert Canal, which when completed will link the Meuse 'to the Scheldt, was breached at Viersel, Belgium, through the displacement of a concrete slab.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 2
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