APPALLING FLOODS.
SOUTHERN lIDH !H UNPRECEDENTED LOSS LIFE AND PROPERTY. RIVERS BURSTS THEIR. BAN® LBy Electric Cable—Copyright. [A.uat. and N.Z. Cable Association DELHI. July 24, Appalling floods are occurring in Southern India, on a scab hitherto unknown in any part o India so far as loss of human am animal life and destruction o public and private property art concerned. Large areas arc under water to depth of eight feet The rivers bu their banks and flowed into one a other. No proper estimate of the loss life is yet obtainable, but the offic: figure, 110, is regarded as much u derated. The damage to railwa is enormous, Ceylon can now reached, only by sea. The interru tiou of communications is causing lo and inconvenience throughout Indi EARTHQUAKE ADDS TO HORRO COMMUNICATION S INTERRUPTED. (Received Saturday, 2 a.m.) > DELHI, July 25. The horrors of the flood disastt in Madras have been added to t an earthquake in tho hilly reglo; which has caused heavy damage I communications.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2433, 26 July 1924, Page 7
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167APPALLING FLOODS. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2433, 26 July 1924, Page 7
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