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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9 (AP).j
New blizzards driving like icy whip
lashes over the Dutch floodlands
brought further hazards and mis
ery today to the men repairing
Holland's shattered dikes.
The wind-whipped water, snow
and ice complicated the engineer
ing problems of the ceaseless effort
to mend temporarily the vast pro
tective network before the next
flood tides on Feb. 16. Government
engineers thought they could do
the job.
The rough weather, however,
threatened to ground Dutch, Amer- j
lean and British planes flying in
vital supplies. The men handling
the picks and shovels were chilled
by the bitter cold.
Despite bad weather, three of
Holland's young princesses flew
over the snow-framed flood areas
yesterday.
Their father, Prince Bernhard,
sent Princesses Beatrix, 15, Irene,
13, and Margriet, 10, into the sky
because, he explained, young as
they were, he felt they should see
how much their country had suf
fered.
Their mother, Queen Juliana,
meanwhile led her people in a day
of mourning. Men and women of
all denominations flocked to
churches to pray for their 1,372
dead and those bereaved by last
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