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Show KURT AUSTRIA Church Collapses and Many Buildings Damaged By Downpour ! VlhNNA. Nov. IS. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Six weeks of steady lalns, broken by but few dry days, have wrought great damage throughout through-out Austila. The tower of the village church In Taut Klrchen. Upper Austria. collapsed col-lapsed this week, killing two person land Injuring several others. Salzburg Salz-burg cathedral, containing the famous Rupert chapel, ls so badly damaged that public subscriptions hav been opened for a repair fund. ; In Vienna hundreds of buildings are .reported as seriously damaged by the Jcontlnued downpour. In this city 'construction almost universally ls of brick faced with about an inch of planter, plan-ter, ruled to imitate stone. Everywhere Every-where tills plaster covering is peel-'lng. peel-'lng. exposing the brie)., and If frost should ( nine before the buildings get 'dry. very heavy damages are predicted. predict-ed. The situation ls aggravated by the fact that there has been virtually no repair work done since tho first of the war. uo . - |