DASH FOR LIFE
MIGHTY INDUS IN FLOOD ICE DAM BURSTS CALCUTTA, August 20. Owing to the bursting of the Sbyok glacier, the Indns, one of the great rivers of Asia, is pouring down in flood through the Kashmir reaches. There were great precautionary activities in the Punjab and along the frontier to warn the inhabitants of the Indus valley and to render them transport facilities. Members of the Royal Air Force are being requisitioned to patrol the area likely to be affected. Attock bridge is being closely watched. By 8 a.m. yesterday the Indus had risen 16ft, and a further 6ft. by 11 am,, a further 4£ft. by 2 p m , and yot another Ift. by 5 p.m., and was then rising slowly. The guage reader at Khalsar, who originally reported tbe flood speaks of 50lt. rise. The deputy commissioner at Attoek wires that all lowing villages have been safely evacuated, without loss of j ife: or cattle.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7901, 12 September 1929, Page 4
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