AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
fAustralian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] EUIIT HE R •1N U N 1) AT IO N. this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, .May 2. With new breaks in the west bank of the Mississippi, three thousand more miles are expected to he inundated and two hundred thousand added to the three hundred thousand already homeless. The problem of caring for the latest refugees is causing the gravest concern, because the established camps are already crowded and overflowing.
It is impossible to obtain accurate estimates of the total dead since the flood inception, but it is reliably reported that drowned bodies recovered number nearly four hundred. while there is a considerable larger figure missing and unaccounted for. The Red Cross has now formally appealed to the public to double tne relief fund, making their request ten million dollars instead of live first asked for, the former sum being proved inadequate to keep the sufferers. The decision followed a conversation between Messrs Hoover and C'uolidge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 3
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165AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 3
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