TWO THOUSAND DROWNED
FLOODS’ HAVOC IN AFRICA. [BY CABLE —PREPS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Reed. February 18. 8 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, February 17. It is estimated that 2000 Mozambique natives were drowned through the Incomati and Umbezuli rivers bursting their banks, after a five days’ deluge which isolated Lorenzo Marquez. The damage is estimated at £1,000,000. Airplanes’ radio give the only details of the disaster.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 7
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