BLACK DAYS FOR RUSSIA.
DESTRUCTION BY FLOODS. 20,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS. THREE VILLAGES OBLITERATED. TORRENTIAL RAIN FALLING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received August 10, 11.30 p.m.) Times. LONDON, Aug. 19. The Riga correspondent of the Times reports that advices from Moscow say that damage to the extent of £1,000,000 has been caused by storms and floods in the Vladivostok and Khabarovsk districts. Twenty thousand people are reported to have been rendered homeless. The flood waters have inundated hundreds of villages, also the towns of Nikolsk and Spassk. Three villages have been completely obliterated. Torrential rain is still falling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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