AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian «fc N.Z. Cable Association.] ANOTHER DISPUTE. NEW YORK, April 21. Strong opposition is develoing among several members of the Australian Industrial Mission against a request made by Mr Bruce (Australian Premier) for a month’s extension. Mr Ludowiei has intimated that owing to private reasons .he must return on the original date. It is understood Mr Grayndler (Labourite) is supporting him. Their view is that the Mission is obtaining similar evidence daily, making possible the shortening of the itinerary and the completion of their report at Washington before leaving.

There is likely to he a stormy meeting of the Mission when the question is again discussed. Other members are favouring an extension and state they believe additional industries should he included.

FURTHER FLOOD DAMAGE. NEW YORK, April 22

News from Kansas City state bitter weather to-day added to the horrors of .thousands of disease stricken and destitute Mississippi flood refugees. 'I he death toll increased hourly. Water covered three thousand .square miles of Mississippi delta. Workers are lighting a losing battle to protect the levee north ot Greenville, Mississippi. It is declared the city of 20,000 will probably he flooded for several feet tonight. Before noon the waters were rising three inches an hour and had already entered the general residential sections of Greenville and the ground floors of buildings in the business section.

Four thousand refugees from the surrounding lowland are in the city, which is without train service. A shortage of food is feared. Live stock from the countryside are running wild in the streets. NEW YORK. April 22. At least 30 more were drowned in the Mississippi floods during the past 24 hours, bringing the total death roll from water and cyclones to two hundred, .with many centres not yet heard from. The numbers injured and missing are still increasing. Biting cold added to the tragedy. Thousands or destitute people, in concentration camps, have only canvas shelter. The rise of the rivers affected water supplies, and in. many instances sewers haver backed up and epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria and other diseases are feared.- Further breaks in the levee occurred and property damage is now beyond any immediate estimate. Approximately one hundred thousand people arc homeless. The floods have not yet reached their peak.