TERRIBLE NIGHT
HAVOC DONE IN FIJI BY HURRICANE.
DEATH? MAY TOTAL 200,
(U.P.A. by Elec. Wei. Copyright) (Received Feb. 2S. 3.20 p.m.) SUVA, Feh. 27. A terrible night was spent at. Ba on February 21st. Floods, backed up by the rising tide and wind, washed away many houses. Davlight revealed only two left. '
The bodies of seventy dead Indians were buried in one grave. At the sugar ean P centre of the Colonial Sugar Coy., on the north side of Vitilevu, where there were 1-50 souls, only 25 have been accounted for. \ The total deaths are at least 200.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 5
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