Hyderabad, Sept. 2
The prodigious efforts of 100,000 workers are still being devoted to strengthening vital points of the dykes along the banks of the Indus in pyparation for the flocd which la coming down from the Himalayas and which is expected to reach Sukkur, 200 miles above this city, tonight, The authorities have again warned all concerned to evacuate the districts which may be affected in consequence of a fear that if the level of the River Indus at Sukkue exceeds 18ft,, the huge barrage works will be seriously endangered and vast tracts of cultivated land in northern and southern Hyderabad, the Nova Valley, the Fuleli and Karachi districts' will probably be submerged ina manner which will border on catastrophe.
A hopeful factor is that the level of the Indus at Sukkur, though it reached the 16)-foot mark this morning, is not rising appreciably.
Karachi, Sept, 3.
'Although, the influence of the flood-water coming down the Sutle}, Ravi, Chenab and Jehlam into the Indus "has not yot been felt, tremendous damage dae to local floods is reported from the fertil' ration surrounding Hyderabad, the wrfiow from floods in Khairpue causing breaches in the huge with result that hundreds of square of cultivated and is being inundated—Reuter,
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