FLOODS IN INDIA
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(Rec. July 27, 8.5 p.m.) Delhi, July 27. An unprecedented rainfall has caused serious floods in the Slate of Baroda, Western India, resulting .in the almost complete isolation of Bombay. Mail trains from Peshawur and, Punjab are marooned in the floods, and al communication with the affected area is cut off. Hundreds of square miles of country are submerged. Fifteen inches of rain fell yesterday. Scores of bridges have been washed away in Sadiya frontier tracts on the Assam border. Phenomenal rain is reported in Burma, ten inches falling, completely flooding the town. \
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 9
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99FLOODS IN INDIA Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 9
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