DROUGHT IN INDIA
FAMINE THREAT IN WESTERN DISTRICTS PEOPLE LEAVING COUNTRYSIDE FOR TOWNS. HEAVY CATTLE LOSSES IN SOME AREAS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON. August 9. The Bombay correspondent of "The Times" says that on account of waler scarcity and a failure of crops and fodder, famine face large tracts of Western India unless rain falls within a week. A heavy mortality amongst cattle is reported from Kathiawar and other districts. The population is leaving some districts for the towns owing to food shortage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 8
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88DROUGHT IN INDIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 8
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