WELCOME RAIN.
RELIEVES FAMINE IN INDIA. !!Y ELECTRIC TKLEGUAI'H COrTKTOIIT. TIMES ANP SYDNET SUN SERVICES. Received July 22. ft.3o a.m. CALCUTTA, July 20. •Rain has relieved the famine iii, the Allahabad l districts, and the'workers arc returning to the fields. The distress among the. -43,000 natives affected is diminishing.
Allahabad is the capital of N.W.F. India, 130 miles from Delhi (the capita 1 , of the Empire) a-nd oGt) miles from Calcutta, with a population of 175,718. Allahabad district contains- close .upon 1.500,000 souls and cover;; an- area of square miles. The entire divisioij compi'lftes' J7.2(1.5 square "miles" with a' total population of over 0,5(X),CC0.
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Mataura Ensign, 21 July 1914, Page 5
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104WELCOME RAIN. Mataura Ensign, 21 July 1914, Page 5
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