Capetown, Feb. 17.
Brief radio messages picked up here to-day have brought news of major flood disaster in Mozambique, in Portuguese East" Africa. 'Two day thousand natives, the messages state, have been drowned asa result floods caused by the rivers Incomati and Unbeluzi Sursting their banks. 'The floods followed a deluge which' lasted for five days. All railway and telegraphic communications with Loureneo Marques have been disrupted.
Feb, 18, Over 1,000 natives were rescued from a watery grave by the authorl-
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