FLOODS IN BURMA
GREAT DAMAGE'DONE."
(Received 9.30 a.ih'.)' . CALCUTTA, August 11. The heavy floods at Burma continue. > The Rangoon-Mandalay railway.- was ’ i swept away in five places, one gap being 400 feet. A portion of the Pegu 0 and other towns and 1000 acres of agricultural land have been submerged. ' £ Much live stock has been drowned in the Indus. Floods are also threatening .yj to sever communications in Baluchistan and the North-west frontier districts. Barriers have been hastily constructed to save towns and villages from destruction. - hisjl
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Northern Advocate, 12 August 1932, Page 5
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