VILLAGES WASHED AWAY
STRICKEN victims fleeing from INDIA FLOOD BRIGANDS spread terror
DELHI, Wednesday. hav^ week s floods in Upper Sind than irJ» Bte ? a serious position. More a* av JIJ villages have been washed fliriatened ** u ndreds of others are halkf Bw ollen River Indus burst its inun.iL. 1 a Aistance of two miles, and count?. more ,han 150 ini’-es of aad l? yestroyink crops and cattle. derins thousands of vHagers meless and desolate. The damage Tkl . ed at “early £1,000,000. their Btr * cken People are fleeing with ih bost Can S belongings on rafts and they* 13 ', They arrive at places where also a B6 . Bafe ty. only to find these Th dauger of being engulfed. W? „ °’ ooo inhabitants of Shilcarpur ia an> €Vacuated that city, which now aonrf. 2 erged to a depth of six feet by G. 8 * roni two directions. Junvw 8 °f brigands, driven from their fe. " Retreats by the inundation, are rrorlslng the refugeea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 11
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