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...than that caused by the German bombardment during the War. Train service throughout central Belgium was paralyzed for days, and the flax harvest partly swept away by the flooding of the Lys. King Albert personally directed the emergency measures taken to abate the Meuse valley floods. At Marchienne a motorboat funeral procession was observed...
...Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...
Died. Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, one-time Nicaraguan Minister to the U. S.; at Washington, D. C., of uremic poisoning. His son, Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, sped toward Washington from Nicaragua for nine days by horse, motorboat, steamboat, railway and automobile, but arrived one hour too late...
Excise Taxes. Groups from several industries asked for abolition of the taxes on the things which they produced?automobiles, f i r e a r ms, cameras, jewelry, etc. The taxicab drivers wanted their $10 tax abolished; the motorboat and yacht builders wanted the tax on motorboat users removed...
...Harvard men who were doing this work in the mission last summer were G. D. Krumbhaar '26, D. J. Baldwin '25, J. A. Haistead '27 and E. E. Goodale '28. There are still three jobs to be filled, one of them requiring an expert motorboat mechanic. Information may be obtained from G. D. Krumbhaar '26 at Randolph...