MONSOON FLOODS TAKE TOLL
LARGE AREA IN INDIA FLOODED TEA SHIPMENTS HELD UP. Au-tn*|inn end v 7 - I de A-snc’ntio* (Received August ‘29, 3.5 p.ro.) DELHI, August ‘2B. Enormous damage has been done by monsoon floods which in large areas of India and Burma have ruined crops and taken heavy 101 l of life and property. Railway breaches in the Teesta Valley continue, and it is impossible to move heavy consignments of tea. There is prospect of serious losses in the J'fgu ditri't, Burma, where 200,000 a'-r*'s. mainlv rh-e land, are under •\atc-r.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 8
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