CYCLONE IN MADRAS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 6, 1 December 1916, Page 2

CYCLONE IN MADRAS.

VISITATION AT POMDICKERY. THREE HUNDRED DEATHS. THE CITY IN DARKNESS. TELEGRAM LINES CUT. Press Assn.—Copyright.—Australian 1 and N.Z. Cable Assn., and Reuter. | ('Received 12.5 p.rn.) Madras, November 30. Nearly 300 were killed in Pomliehery. ; Great damage was done, the city being without light or telegraph. The work of relief lias begun. (Pondichery is the el fief settlement of the French in India, on the eastcoast of Madras, 00 miles sonth-sounil-west of Madras. It is divided into the White (European) town and the Black town, separated hy a canal. Pomlichery has no harbour. The town is mainly dependent on artesian wells for its water-supply. Chief industry, weaving and dyeing. Groundnuts. oil-cake, cotton cloth, and thread are exported. The' French first settled here in 1674 the town was taken by the Dutch in 1693, and by the British in 1761, 1778, 1793, and 1803. it was finally restored to the French iu 1816. The settlement at Pondiehery has an area of 115 square miles. Population of town 50,000 of territory 260.000. Off the town the French fleet was defeated by Poeock on September 19( 1759).