MANY HOMELESS.
VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY. SERIOUS EGYPTIAN FLOODS. (BT CABLE—r!USS3 ASSOCIATION CO?TSI(}*T.) (ATTSmAiXAX AK£> X.J. CABLI ASSOCIAHOK.) (Receive December 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) CAIRO, December I. Terrific rainstorms have swept away whole villages and rendered hundreds of people homeless in the Assouan region. Railway lines and telegraphs hare been destroyed, and the inhabitants of flooded villages are in pitiable distress, lacking food and shelter. The Government is despatching tents and food frdtn Cairo.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 9
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72MANY HOMELESS. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 9
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