AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian At N.Z. Cable* Association.]

DANGER NEAR DELTA. NEW YORK, Alay 12.

Over gI>.GUO men have been buttressing the levee near New Orleans to save a big inundation in South l.oui.s-

Tho flood waters from Natchez to New Orleans are rising, the stage being one-tenth of a loot higher at the latter place. The Red Cross has established sixtylour stations in the. newly-threatened area, and it is making preparations to evacuate all tile inhabitants.

The ten million dollars mark in Red Cross contributions has been pa-sed. hut the enllcetinns are still continuing, and each day more Senators and Congressmen arc petitioning President Cooliilge to call an extra session of Congress to deal with the situation. NEW YOBK. A lay 12. News from New Orleans slates that while no definite break has yet occurred in the Bayou Dos Olaizcs Levee (which was feared since Wednesday), water to-day began pouring over the dyke levels, thus indicating that the Levee can hold possibly for only lour hours.

The first break in the Levee system guarding Central and Southern Louisiana has occurred. Thus was the embankment at Layott Rouge crumpled near Cotton Port, realising part of the inland sea which had spread o'er North-Eastern Louisiana.

The effect of this break upon the city nf New Orleans has been problematical. Although the City .Meteorological Bureau has renewed its warning that every precautionary measure should lie taken, the eitv guards were w Redrawn from the levees in the neighbourhood of the break, and the work of raising the tops of the embankments was halted.