MISSISSIPPI FLOOD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 7

MISSISSIPPI FLOOD

'ATTEMPTS AT PROTECTION ANOTHER BREAK EXPECTED (Elec. Te!. Copyright—United Press Assn.’ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association., NEW YORK, May 11. Advice from New Orleans states that the impact of the swollen Mississippi now bears heaviest on the Bayou-Des-glaizes levee, in which a break is expected hourly. This would Hood some of the richest sugar-growing areas in Southern Louisiana. Twenty-live thousand men are working day and night m an attempt to strengthen the levee over a distance of YO miles.

The Hood waters, meanwhile, from Natchez to New Orleans, are rising, being one-tenth of a toot higher at the latter place. The Red Cross has established 46 stations in the newly-threaten-ed area, and is making preparations to evacuate all the inhabitants. The £2,(XXI,OOO mark in Red Cross contributions has been passed, but collections are still continuing, and daily more senators and congressmen are petitioning President t ollidge to call an extra session of Congress to deal with the situation. EFEECT IN LANCASHIRE LONDON, May 2. Direct loss to Lancashire financial interests is predicted as the result of the damage to the Mississippi cotton areas, ihe Manchester Fine Cotton Spinners Associaton alone has 10,000 acres under cultivation there.