UNPRECEDENTED COLD WAVE IN INDIA
HUNDREDS DEAD HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE i ■ _ (UKTHSD PRESS ASSOCIATIOK—BT W,BCTRIO TBUSGBASH—COPTHiaHT.) (Received January 20, 7.18 p.m.) CALCUTTA, January 19. Nearly £2,000,000 worth of damage has been done to crops in a large area of north-eastern India by an unprecedented cold wave. In Sind alone hundreds perished, including many of the poor who shut themselves in huts with coal braziers and were poisoned by fumes. In Allahabad 10.UOO devout Hindus, making a pilgrimage to the sacred river Ganges, are undergoing a trying ordeal. They are sleeping in the open with the temperature below freezing point, and bathing in the ice-cold river each morning as part of their penance.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21377, 21 January 1935, Page 15
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