FLOOD DISASTER
IN ASBAAI,
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CAi,w uTTA, June 19
Owing to ail abnormal break of the monsoon, a devastating flood occurred at Assam. Alany villagers perished. In ttiloliar half of tlie houses were swept away. Looting is taking place, and the Government is threatening lasting penalties. The villagers saved tlieif- lives by climbing into the trees till rescued liv boats.
The Assam Government has appealed to the Bengal Government for help and urgent relief measures. BUGUTA (Columbia) June I!).
Forty are believed to be drowned and more than one hundred injured, and tlie practical destruction of the town of Sevilla in tlie Department of t'mica, as the result of floods from the Quilc-adc River.- Sevilla has six thousand inhabitants.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 5
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