Severe Floods
LOSS OF LIFE IN INDIA MANY REPORTED STARVING (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CALCUTTA, June 26. Assam is cut off from the rest of India by floods, which have broken bridges and swollen rivers. It is officially stated that a hundred people are missing and immense damage has been done. All telegraphic and railway communications arc suspended. It is reported that a big river steamer sank near Dhubri, and heavy loss of life is feared. People are living in trees and on housetops. Thousands of starving refugees are flocking into the towns. The floods are the severest in living memory, due to a fifteen days’s uninterrupted monsoon rainfall in the Himalayan foothills.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 151, 28 June 1934, Page 5
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