WEATHER EXTREMES
HEAT WAVE AND FLOODS DISASTER IN JAPAN ;Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) TOKIO, AugtiM U.
While the capital and the adjacent districts arc suffering from excessive heat, the continued drought threatening a water famine, yesterday Niigata was flooded severely, the deluge causing landslides and interrupting the railways. One train was overturned. Hundreds of houses were washed away, and many deaths from drowning arc reported.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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71WEATHER EXTREMES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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