AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

fAustralian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] FLOOD RELIEF WORK. (Received this flay at 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 27. Memphis message states Government officials having endorsed the scheme cabled yesterday, preparations are being made to cut the levee on Fridaiy; to relieve the Mississippi flood conditions, as a result of which New Orleans must defray the cost, amounting to between two and four million dollars, in addition to which the city must care for three thousand persons necessarily evacuated, and return them to their homes after the water recedes. 3 Desperate conditions are now reported - in many Arkansas towns where outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases are occurring in increasing numbers'. Fifteen boats ordered to proceed up Arkansas river rescued hundreds of marooned families. Mr Hoover has now arrived at New Orleans to take charge of the relief work NEW YORK, April 27. A message from New Orleans states that carrying all movable belongings, hundreds of trappers and farmers today left their homes at St. Demand, Plaquemines and parishes south of hero, ordered to be inundated on Friday ns a precaution to prevent the flooding of New Orleans and headed for the city. Many of the four thousand inhabitants of the doomed seventy thousand acres maintained an armed watch at a point at which- the levee is to lie broken, demanding guarantees against loss before quitting their posts. The waters, if admitted, would cover truck farms for several months, drown musk-rats in numbers and wipe out the trappers livelihood for years. FLOOD DANGERS. (Received this dnv at 11.0 a.m A NEW YORK, April 27. The rivers have not reached their crest. Sudden breaks in the Arkansas ._ r * ve1 ’ endangered the lives of 5000 marooned refugees. A Government engineer estimates the previous high water marks of the Mississippi river will he exceeded by at least three feet, before the crisis is passed. It is also feared 20.000 persons between Vicksburg and the mouth of the Red river will he trapped in the rapidly rising water. Federal State officials claim they are pow--1 erless to help them. The crest of the Hood is not expected for two or three days. There is a serious shortage of boats for rescue work. In the meantime additional stories of death and destruction are reported hourly. The Red Cross has received an offer of two and n half million dollars.

PANAMA DEMAND. Washington, April 27 Panama Government presented

note to. the State Department to-day asking for the immediate release of a Federal ship held at San Francisco as a rum runner, on the grounds that the seizure was beyuild the jurisdiction of United States, and contrary to the existing treaties.