Lahore, Aug. 13, An event anxiously awaited ix, waters of a huge north of Leh, which has been threatening the whole Indus valley, occurred last night.
The lake is nine miles long, with an average depth of 140 feet, Urgent preparations had been made for the bursting.
Sentinels were posted at the summits of the mountains between the lake and the. telegraph office at Leh, and when the glacier burst a great chain of bonfires blazed, guns were fired and telegraphic. warnings were flashed. to all districts, An number "of villages in th Nowshera district had previously. been evacuated. The population of other areas in the path of the flood, which is now pouring down the Indus valley from a height of 17,000 feet, are hastily being removed to safety, troops assisting in the work, Denied Simla, Aug.
The Punjab Government statew that the ice-dam at Shayok, on a tributary of the Indus near the Tibetan border has not burst, explains that the report. was based fon a fire seen m the neighbourhood being mistaken for one of the. beacons which are to be fired as a signal that the dam has burst—Reuter.
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