RIVER VOLGA IN FLOOD
MANY VILLAGES DELUGED STREAAI BLOCKED BY ICF. Reuter's Telegram LONDON. April 2=>. Reuter’s Moscow correspomlcr states that the Volga’s upper tril taries have overflowed their bankThe river Klazma flooded the town n Orekhova, and eight persons wer drowned and 11 bridges destroyed Many textile mills have been rendered idle. Loss of life is also reported at Rybinsk, where the Volga is 50 feet above tlie usual level. Scores of villages have been flooded. The inhabitants tool: refuge on the roofs. Detachments of the Red Army are bloving up the ice jams in the rivers in order that the waters may flowin a natural course.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 9
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108RIVER VOLGA IN FLOOD New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 9
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