BRAHMAPUTRA OVERFLOWS.
HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. (BRITISH OmcUi WIBSUSSS.) ROGBY, September 5. A hundred thousand people were rendered homeless by the overflowing of the river Brahmaputra. Many villages were completely submerged and stores of jirain and cattle washed away. Rail and road communications have been cut off by the floods and famine and disease are feared
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 11
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