GIRL GUIDES' ORDEAL
Hailstones are among the dreaded enemies of the South Indian villager, states an exchange.
During one. of .the hottest months of this year, on an April afternoon, a group of villages in Hyderabad State, the dominions of His Highness the Nizam, was desolated by a fierce deluge of hailstones, jagged lumps of ice the size of a hen's egg, some as big as a tennis ball. In the fields round Sangipet village twelve people and thirteen hundred sheep were killed by the hail.
Many of the sheep leaped blindly into open wells to try to escape from the fury of this onslaught. The tiles on the houses were pounded into small particles. Thatched huts were laid flat. The rice crop, almost ready for cutting, was battered down as though a steamroller had passed over it;
The Girl Guides from the Mission Settlement at Medak were in camp, and their tents were torn to ribbons; in only a few minutes they were struggling through a mass of hailstones a foot deep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 19
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173GIRL GUIDES' ORDEAL Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 19
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