SUBSIDENCE OF SWAMP.
RUSHING RIVER FORMED. KENYA PROVINCE ISOLATED. Times. CAPETOWN. April 25. Advices from Nairobi state that the whole province of Kenya, formerly known as the East Africa Protectorate, is cut off from Nairobi as a result of a subsidence in a papyrus swamp on the Thica railway. The swamp, which is miles long and half a mile wide, suddenly broke up and carried away the main road and bridges, aad damaged tie railway. The subsidence is believed to be the result of recent earthquakes in the vicinity. Water is pouring from subterranean caverns, and tie swamp has become a rushing river 60ft. wide. A new valley has been created.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18075, 27 April 1922, Page 7
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