FLOODS IN INDIA
300 PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED
SUKKUR BARRAGE IN DANGER
Australian Press Assn.—United Service.
(Rec. August 30, 7 p.m.)
Delhi, August 30;
Three hundred inhabitants of Dera Ismail Khan, a town in the Punjab, on the north-western frontier, / near the right bank of Indus, are believed to have been drowned in floods sweeping down the mountain sides. The Sukkur barrage .is in danger of being swept away, and a repetition of the 1882 disaster, when the whole town was wiped out, is feared. e Dera Ghazi Khan, in the Peshawar district, is out of danger. The floods at Navshera are subsiding.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 11
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