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FLOODS IN ALGERIA. VAST SILT-COVERED PLAIN FOOD I BY AEROPLANES. BY' CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY RIGHT. Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. ALGIERS, Nov. 29. Flood damage iti the Oran department alone is estimated at £4,000,000. Many villages were swept away, almost without leaving a trace'. A vast tract has been converter! into a silt covered plain. The dead ie certain to total several hundreds.. Rain continues, hampering relief. Provision convoys have started, but in the meantime aeroplanes are dropping fowl in the isolated districts. •—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 November 1927, Page 11
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89VILLAGES WIPED OUT Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 November 1927, Page 11
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