FLOODS IN CHINA
DEATH ROLL N(sw 30,000
(United Press- Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) «•: TOKIO, August 11. '
The ‘latest- advices'' l state that the SudgaH hdi -risen 'tWerit'y-fiVe 'feetj. and it-is believed-that thirty thousand are tle'ad; .Twenty-five million acres are ihuridated, villages are submerged, whi’e h brrlhill part of Harbin city only ,- is above water. The crops in the entire region' hiive beeh. ; ' destroyed.
DAMAGE IN. INDIA. LANt> And towns submerged . jr CALCUTTA, August U. ; ; , Eteavy Biirm'ah floods: continue, and the Rangodh-TVldhdald.y rkilwriy ' was swept away iii five places, one gap being fouF hundred feet tong. Pegii, .and other towns, together •with thousands of acres of agricultural land are submerged, while livestock lias be-n drowned. The. Indus-floods are, also, threatening to sever communications with BaluehisUn and the north-west frontier districts, and ..barriers are hastily being constructed to srive towns arid villages' from destruction.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1932, Page 6
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