THOUSANDS DROWNED
MOZAMBIQUE NATIVES RIVERS BURST THEIR BANKS CAPETOWN, Feb. 17. (Received Feb. 18, at 1.45 a.m.) It is estimated that 2000 Mozambique natives were drowned through the Incomati and Umbezuli Rivers bursting their banks after a fivedays’ deluge, which isolated Lourencomarques with damage estimated at £1,000,000. An aeroplane’s radio gave the only details of the disaster.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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