GREAT LANDSLIDES
HIMALAYAN VILLAGES WIPED DUT WRECKAGE ON THE GANGES ?re*s Association— By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, September 11. The * Daily Telegraph’s ’ Bombay correspondent says; “Hundreds of lives have ■ been lost in great landslides which completely wiped out seven Himalayan villages in Garhwai. There are no survivors. The first inkling of the tragedy came when human bodies, carcasses of animals, and wreckage began to drift down from the Himalayas on the flood-swollen waters of the Ganges. The landslides apparently' occurred at night time, overwhelming the villagers while they slept, . .
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Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 15
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87GREAT LANDSLIDES Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 15
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