ICE DAM BURSTS
(Press Assn.
GREAT flood SWEEPING DOWN THE INDUS RIVER THE SECOND DISASTER
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
Calcutta, August 28. The famous Shyok ice dam in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas, is reported to have burst. A tremendons volnme of water is coming down th'e River Indus, and threatens to inundate the Punjab and Kashmir districts. This dam holds back an artificial lake, formed 17,000 feet up the Karakoram Range, which on the occasion of its previous bursting caused a flood of water 50 feet high at Attock Bridge, situated 600 miles from the dam.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 5
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97ICE DAM BURSTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 5
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