BURMAH FLOODS
Doing Great Damage
RAILWAY SWEPT AWAY THE LAND SUBMERGED TOWNS IN DANGER INDUS RIVER .ALSO RISES By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Aug. 12, P atm.) Calcutta ,August 11. Heavy floods continue in. lower Burnt ah. The Rangoiori-Mandalay railway has been, swept away in five places, ono gap being; 400 feet wide. A portion of Pegu and other .downs, with thousands of acre® <4 agricultural land, aie submerged, with much, livestock drowned. ANOTHER, DANGER. ZONE The Indus floods have .also threat, cited to sever communication g between Baluchistan and the northwest frontier districts. . Harriets have been hastily constructed to. slave the, towns and villages from destruction.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3795, 12 August 1932, Page 5
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