EAST AFRICAN DISASTER
RIVERS BURST THEIR BANKS TWO THOUSAND NATIVES DROWNED Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, February 17. It is estimated that 2,000 Mozambique natives were drowned _ through the Incomati and Umhezuli Rivers bursting their banks after a five-days’ deluge, which isolated Lourencoraarques, with damage estimated at £1,000.000. An aeroplane’s radio gave the only details of the disaster.
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Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 11
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59EAST AFRICAN DISASTER Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 11
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