FLOODS IN INDIA
MANY DEATHS FEARED. SUKKUR BARRAGE IN DANGER. 'Ey Telegraph.—Pre33 Assn.—Coo.vrlJrtit.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) DELHI, Aug. 30. Three hundred of the inhabitants of Hera Ismail Khan, a town in the Punjab, on tiie north-west frontier near the right bank of the River Indus, are believed to have been drowned by flood waters which arc sweeping down the mountain sides. The Sukkur barrage is in danger of being swept away, A repetition of the disaster of 1823, when the original city of Dera Ismail Khan was destroyed by a flood, is feared. Dera Ghazi Khan, in the Peshawar district is out of danger. The floods at Navshera are subsiding-
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 7
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111FLOODS IN INDIA Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 7
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