MANY DROWNED.
FERRY BOAT CAPSIZED. MONSOON CAUSES DISASTER. DELHI, August 29. Some sixty Indian peasants were drowned on the Hooghley River when a ferry boat was capsized and broken in halves. Passengers and cattle were washed downstream, only forty out of a hundred reaching the shore.
The monsoon did enormous damaep. Tt vas attended by extensive floods, which miner! larpre areas of crops both in India and Burma. In the latter country 200.000 acres are under water in the Pegu district.—(A. and X.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 7
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