AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) FLOOD AFTERMATH. NEW YORK. Sept. 5. A message from Grenville, in Massachusetts, states: Air Hoover on returning to the flood region for the first time since July, was greeted hv a scone of post-flood paralysis. At least, one half of the country which was originally inundated is now unfit for farming, and its owners are bankrupt. “Sixty thousand people are dependent on tho Red Cross for food and clothing. Thousands of others are existing miserably.” The relief organisations are powerless to aid in the checking of disease, against which Air Hoover has waged the fiercest battle. Disease has now gained a foot hold. “It is estimated that there are upwards of fifty thousand victims of pellagra.” Air Hoover is confident that tho situation will ultimately he remedied. He declared that it Mas a tremendous problem, requiring considerable lime.
ilt is believed in some circles that tho intervention of Congress will provide the speediest way to a remedy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 2
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165AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 2
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