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Floods in Manchuria
HOW THE NORTH SUFFERS PRODUCE DESTROY ED GREAT LOSS OF LTFE GREAT AREA INUNDATED By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) (.Received Aog. 12, 10.13 ajn.) Tokio, August 11La.tCgt, from North Manchuria stat© that the Sungari River has risen tio feet. It is believed there .are 30.000 dead and 25 million acres of land inundated. Villages have been submerged and only a small part of Harbin city is above water. The crops in the entire region have been destroyed. \ Railway trucks containing millions of dollars worth of produce are com plot ely submerged.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3795, 12 August 1932, Page 5
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