Fire and rain
NZPA Moscow Heavy rains forced the evacuation of thousadns of residents in the Soviet Far East while factory and collective farm workers battled fires in peat bogs surrounding Moscow over the weekend, Soviet newspapers have reported.
A month’s rain fell near the Soviet city of Khabarovsk near the Chinese border during a few hours one day this week, inundating 30 settlements and tens of thousands of hectares of farm land, according to a report in "Trud,” newspaper of the Soviet Council of Trade Unions.
The newspaper gave no details on casualties or damage from either the floods in the east or the fires in the west of the nation. Soviet media accounts of natural calamities seldom give such information.
The newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda," organ of the Young Communists League, yesterday described peat fires around Moscow which it hinted were the worst since similar blazes in 1972, which claimed at least two lives.
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