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Floods Sweep Polish Villages; 100 Lose Lives

July 18, 1934
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At least 100 persons, a majority of them Jews, were believed today to have died in disastrous floods which inundated several hundred south-western villages and twenty large towns, including Cracow, Tarnow and Nowysancz, following a cloudburst and rain that fell for three days.

Krynica and Zakopane, summer resorts with numerous Jewish guests, were also flooded. Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, Polish dictator, ordered the air force to rush relief to the stricken areas, but even airplanes cannot operate in the mountainous sections.

Numerous Jewish families in Congress Poland are filled with

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