DAM BURSTS
VAST INDIAN FLOODS FEARED. (United Pross Association —By Electric Tel egrapb —Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) \ CALCUTTA, August 28. The famous Shyok ice dam on the Karkoram range in the Himalya s is reported to have burst, and a tremendous volume of wate r ig coming down the Indus, threatening to inundate Punjab and Kashmir. This dam holds back a-n artificial -lake formed at 17,000 feet up the Karkoram range, which, on the occasion of a previous bursting, caused flood water fifty feet high at the Attock bridge, 600 miles from the dam.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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97DAM BURSTS Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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