GRAVE FLOODS IN IRAK.
[RIPE CROPS RUINED.
DIVERS ABNORMALLY HIGH.
BREACHES IN THE BANKS.
WIDE AREA INUNDATED.
RAILWAY THREATENED. Tty Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May 0, 8.25 p.m.) IT;rae3 Cable. LONDON, May 8. The Bagdad correspondent of the Times reports that, as a result of the melting of the snows on tlio Anatolian mountains, (.ho Euphrates and Tigris Kivers have lisen to a height unknown at least for half a century. There are many breaches in the river banks and thousands of acres of winter crops, which were ready for harvesting, have been destroyed. Tho town of liamadi, 60 miles west of Bagdad, is surrounded by water, and tribesmen aro working day and night repairing and raising tho river banks. All tho districts in Irak aro reported to havo grown excellent crops and many small cultivators will be reduced to
penury. The floods are now threatening the Bag dad-Basra railway.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 11
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