MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
TOWNS UNDER WATER. REFUGEES ORDERED OUT FLEET OF RELIEF BOATS. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, April 26. A message from Memphis states that General Green, commanding the Mississippi National Guard, has ordered the forcible evacuation of Greenville,. Lealand and other Hooded towns. A fleet of more than 100 'boats * f all sizes is being assembled at Vicksburg to carry soldiers into the flooded areas to bring out the remaining residents, by force if necessary. General Green said: “We cannot ■allow these people to die like rats from disease and privation, or permit them to be trapped 'by rising water. If they refuse to leave we intend to force them out of the stricken territory.” General Green’s order is- expected to affect 30,000 refugees at present in the condemned centres. Six hundred Guardsmen await the command. In the meantime hundreds of additional refugees continue to arrive at Vicksburg.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 April 1927, Page 5
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