FLOOD VICTIMS.
HELP FROM RED CROSS
THOUSANDS REHABILITATED,
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.
The Red Cross organisation announces that it is still prpviding for over 130,000 destitute victims of the flood in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The total number of those rendered destitute is estimated at 607,000, 80,000 of whom the Red Cross has been able to assist in rehabilitating themselves. It lias also fed 200,000 refugee cattle. The waters, which inundated approximately ten million acres, still cover 170,000 acres. Already 2.170,000 acres have been replanted.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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88FLOOD VICTIMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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