BIG FLOODS IN INDIA
BOMBAY REPORTED ISOLATED
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) DELHI, 27th July. An unprecedented rainfall has caused serious Hoods in the State of Barodo, Western India, resulting in the almost complete isolation of Bombay. Mail trains from Pcshawur and tho Punjab are marooned in the floods, and all communication with the affected aren 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 Sadiyu frontier tracts "on the Assam border.
Phenomenal rain is reported in Bur niii, ten inches falling, completely flood ing tho town.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 11
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