FLOODS IN INDIA
FOLLOWED BY CHOLERA
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
DELHI, August 16
( Thousands of panic-stricken refugees are fleeing from the Middle and Upper Sind, where the ravages of cholera are fallowing upon lr’gh floods and are taking a heavy tell of life. Over eleven thousand people have taken refuge at Karachi alone. There is hardly a town or a village in Sind that is.not stricken with disease. it is feared that there, is a great Joss of life .in the. forest areas, owing to the floods, -where only the. tops of the tre,es are showing, and where rescue is impossible. Hundreds of villages are marooned on the tree tops.
In Gampat, the capital of Kliairpur State, the floods rose neck-high as the result of the River Indus breaking its banks, and the city has now been evacuated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 5
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