DESTROYED BY FLOODS.
PUNJAB VILLAGE MEETS WITH DISASTER. THREE .HUNDRED PEOPLE BELIEVED DROWNED. United Press Association —By Kiectra. tolegrapi Copyright.) (Australian Frees Association.) DELHI, Aug. 30. Three hundred inhabitants of Deralsmailkhan, a town in the Punjab on the north-west frontier, near the right bank of the River Indus, are believed to have been drowned in floods sweeping down the mountain sides. The Sukkur barrage is in danger of being swept away, and a repetition of the 1882 disaster, when the tv hole town was wiped out, is feared. Deraghazikhan, in the Pashawar district, is out of danger. The floods at Naushcra are subsiding.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 5
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103DESTROYED BY FLOODS. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 5
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