FLOOD HAVOC.
ASSAM ISOLATED.
Heavy Loss of Life Feared in . River Tragedy.
15 DAYS' MONSOONAL RAIN.
(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)
(Received 12.30 p.m.) CALCUTTA, June 26. Assam is cut off from the rest of India by floods, which have broken bridges and swollen rivers. It is officially stated that 100 people are missing. Immense damage has been done. All telegraphic, railway and road communications are suspended. It is reported that a big river steamer sank near Dhubri, and heavy loss of life is feared. People are living in trees and on housetops. Thousands of starving refugees are flocking into the towns. The floods are the severest within living memory, and have been caused by 15 days of uninterrupted, monsoonal rainfall in the Himalayan foothills. MAD JACKALS. INDIAN COMMUNITY SCARED. (Received 12 noon.) CALCUTTA, June 26. • Mad jackals are, terrorising a large area of the Noniinabad district m Deccan to such an extent that villagers are afraid to venture out unless armed. Hitherto over 100 persons have been bitten and five have died. It is presumed that a mad jackal bit, a bull, which died. The carcase was then eaten by other jackals who became infected.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7
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