'A new element has been injected into the drama of distress. Many who were made homeless and crop less by the foods, took their guns in their small boats and went to more favoured villages and at the point of the rifle demanded food and cloth-ting. These robber boats have befeome such a pest that people of the villages bordering the inundated ands became wary, and some fire on Jany boat that tries to come near tunless it is known to be engaged in Tegitimate traffic. A day or two ago, bandit' boat drew near a village fand-in firing on the intruder, the villagers wounded one of their' own people. They immediately put him fon a small boat and started for the Mission Hospital here, but the vic im died en route. From reports; Jcasualties from these fights are not
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