(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Much damage was caused in the regions of Melitopol, Krivoy Rog, Zaporozhye, Jankoi and Cherson where Jewish colonies are located by a severe gale which swept the territory.
Thousands of acres of crops were affected. In the Zaporozhye and Melitopol districts, many houses were destroyed. Trees and telegraph poles were uprooted. Work in the fields has been interrupted.
Telephone connections between Charkoff and the Crimea were interrupted. The district between Sinelnikovo and Jankoi suffered especially.
Latest reports received here state that the gale has subsided.
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