DEATH ROLL INCREASING
INDIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER BODIES BEING UNEARTHED FROM RUINS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 26. (Received January 27, at 11.40 a.m.) An authoritative 'statement from Patna warmly welcomes the financial help from India and England, which is going 'to the relief of immediate earthquake distress by providing blankets and comforts' for the living and disposing of the dead. The death roll is increasing by hundreds daily, as bodies are being unearthed. Only, those who have seen the shattered ruins in the towns and the pitiable plight of the wretched survivors can understand the extent of the suffering and thq wholesale destruction.
Many sugar factories have been destroyed and have left thousands of cultivators with sugar cane crops which they are unable to dispose: of. They are faced with starvation.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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131DEATH ROLL INCREASING Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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