STORM DISASTER
DEVASTATION IN EASTERN BENGAL ELEVEN THOUSAND DEATHS. TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS INLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 12.25 p.m.) RUGBY, November 12. A terrible cyclone on the eastern coast of Bengal on October 16 caused 11,000 deaths, states a Calcutta message. The cyclone was accompanied by a tidal wave twenty feet high, which flooded the countryside. The countryside was devastated far more than by any air raid, and 3000 homes were destroyed by the cyclone, the 1 velocity of which was estimated at seventy miles an hour. Scenes of stark tragedy were accentuated by an outbreak of cholera.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 4
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100STORM DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 4
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