INDIAN FLOOD
•, 900 VILLAGES WIPED OUT.
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
DELHI, September 25. The immensity of the floods in the Sind district of the Bombay Presir deucy, which are only now subsiding after six weeks, is revealed by the District Commissioner, who says the iota! area inundated is over five hundred and fifty thousand acres. Over nine hundred villages and hamlets have been destroyed. Fourty thousand people are homeless. The damage is estimated at a million and a-half sterling. SEVENTEEN TO SUFFER. FOR ONE MAN’S DEATH. DELHI, September. 26. V Twelve Bengalis were . transported for Jife, and five were sentenced to two 'years’ rigorous imprisonment,each in collection ..with the death or an /Indian police inspector named Kliolnnnth. Gosh, of Dnhpur, in Bengal,., in June. Gosh , and another inspector and four constables were at-, tacked by a mob of several thousands while engaged in suppressing civil disobedience.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1930, Page 5
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147INDIAN FLOOD Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1930, Page 5
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