FLOODS IN BENGAL.
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION,
BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGH3I Received Oct. 9, 8.50 a.m DELHI, Oct. 8. unprecedented floods occurred in north Bengal. The Bogra and Rajshahi J districts suffered most. At Bogra not | a, single house was left standing, and ' all crops and cattle were destroyed. It is estimated that three million people are destitute. Speedy irelief i measures were instituted and a fund j has been opened. The death roll is ! unknown. There is evidence that the ; waters are subsiding, but it will be a i. long time before the sufferers can hope to return to the ruined villages.—Aus - N.Z, Cable Assn
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 October 1922, Page 5
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103FLOODS IN BENGAL. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 October 1922, Page 5
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