Heavy Flooding In India
(Rec. 10.15 p.m.) CALCUTTA, September 12. Twelve inches of rain to the last three days had caused floods to the suburbs of Calcutta, marooning more than 50,000 people, British United Press reported Ten thousand people had sought refuge in achool buildings and three had been killed. Suburban colonies of East Pakistan refugees were the worst affected, the agency said. Many people just lay on their beds in their bamboo and mud wall shelters as the floods rushed by outside.
AU police station* had been ordered to give every assistance, but people were reluctant to appeal to the police as a result of the bad feeling caused by police firing on rioters during the recent food riots in the city. Unseasonal monsoon rains have destroyed about 5000 homes In the Gujerat district of northern Bombay State in the last fortnight
Farnborough Visit—One of the biggest single organised tours to the Farnborough Air Show will be a party of 300 Commonwealth visitors who are going on a tour organised by the Overseas Visitors’ Club tomorrow.—London, September 12.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 11
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