TIGRIS FLOODS
BAGDAD ALMOST SURROUNDED • By„ Telegraph.—Press association. • -COPYRIGHT. 'London, March 27. Tho “Daily Mail’s” Bagdad correspondent reports that the Tigris burst its banks seventeen miles north' of Bagdad, which is almost an island. A hundred square miles of the surrounding cojintry is flooded. The civil gaol was demolished, but the prisoners Were saved. The artificial embankment is. holding around Bagdad and tho civil and military cantonments are safe. •King Feisul was responsible for saving the palaces and the cultivated land nearby. He personally directed his bodyguard in filling in a breach in the embankment, while the Arab Army strengthened tho weak points. Both the powerful Zab rivers between Bagdad and Mosul are pouring swollen waters into the Tigris, and it will be impossible to repair the original breach until tho river falls.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ac-sn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 164, 29 March 1923, Page 6
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