FLOODS IN INDIA.
FIFTEEN INCHES OF RAIN A DAY (BT CABLB —PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRAXIAN and H.Z. CABIi* ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 27th, 8.5 p.m.) DELHI, July 27. Unprecedented rainfall has caused serious floods in the State of Baroda, in Western India, resulting in the almost complete isolation of Bombay. trains from Peshawur and Punjab are marooned in the floods, and all communication with the affected area is cut off.
Hundreds of square miles of country is submerged. Fifteen inches of rain fell yesterday, and scores <?f bridges have heln washed away in the Sadiya frontier tracts, on the Assam border. Phenomenal rain is reported in Burma, ten inches falling in some parts.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19064, 28 July 1927, Page 9
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