Owing to continuous rains for about a fortnight or so most of the plain is now under water, Promising fields of rice and other articles of food have boon transforied into one sheet of water, forming an inland Here and there villages can be soon half-submerged in water, while the south and east suburbs are falling into ruins. The flooding came. on so" suddenly that people have to be rescued by boats. The city is also partly under water, threatening to destroy numerous buildings. The water is rushing in the big east gate and people seek refuge "on the city wall.
The railway concession can be sighted outside the §S.E. corner, isolated and threatened by the destroying olement,
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