REFUGEES DROWNED
MOTOR CAR SWEPT AWAY
BAGDAD, Dec. 20
While a number of Christian refugees were motoring from Hardin. which is on Turkish territory, to Mosul, their car slu.de in an uttempt lb ford a mountain stream.
The ' 'driver and one pns/songor walked to tlie nearest police post' and secured assistance, but on their return they found that the car, wiili tno remaining seven passenger-', had disappeared. Owing to a heavy rainstorm," the stream had risen with incredible sweeping away everything in its path. The"motor-car and five bodies have been found in the river bed low:t down.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 7 January 1927, Page 11
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