HEAVY FLOOD
IN AMUR DISTRICT OF SIBERIA 40 VILLAGES WASHED OUT. 10,000 ALREADY HOMELESS [United Press Association—By Cable— Copyright.! [Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.] (Received 3, 12.30 p.m.) Shanghai, Aug. 2. A telegram from Siberia states that the Amur River district is seriously flooded, and 40 villages surrounding Blagovestehensk have been washed out, and a pqrtion of the city itself is badly inundated. The Zeva River basin,, a tributary of the Amur, is completely under water, and the population is rapidly evacuating. Upwards of 10,000 are already homeless. The flood is the worst since 1898.
Harbarovsk, Nikolaievsk, and the whole of the lower Amur district are menaced. The damage is already estimated at 5,000,000 roubles.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 197, 3 August 1928, Page 5
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