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OF EXTENDING FLOOD DAMAGE FOLLOWING ON BREACHING OF GERMAN DAMS. IMPORTANT RAILWAY VIADUCT LOSES SPAN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY. May 19.. Reconnaissance aircraft were again out over the Ruhr today to photograph the river swollen by water released through the breaching of the Mohne Dam. Photographs show that the flooding has extended to a point some 60 miles from the reservoir, beyond Schwerte. At the last point wheie flooding has occurred a railway embankment has been badly damaged. The swollen river has taken away one of the supports of the Hardeckc railway viaduct and the railway lines are suspended precariously over . the gap. The viaduct was on the direct route from Dortmund to Hagan and Duetchlorf. The floods swept over the great Bahlhausen marshalling yards, the ninth largest in the Ruhr. This is about 20 miles from Schwerte. Nearly all the filter beds along the banks of this stretch have been flooded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1943, Page 4
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