SECOND EDITION. DANGER NOW PAST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 8

SECOND EDITION. DANGER NOW PAST

FLOODS IN AMERICA RELIEF WORK PROCEEDING (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.') (Australian and i\ r .Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 9,2 p.m.) NHAV YORK, November 8. Willi further danger from the New England floods definitely past, the work of relief and rehabilitation is progressing rapidly. Soldiers, Red Cross men, and volunteers are caring for refugees in temporary barracks. The situation generally lias greatly improved, notwithstanding snow and intense cold weather in some sections. Sufficient food land piedieal supplies have reached the centres where the suffering is most severe, and the danger of disease has been greatly lessened. It is impossible at present to compute a complete list of dead, hut 86 bodies have been identified, the majority of whom, were residents of Vermont. An enormous acreage of land is under water, rendering many homos still inaccessible to the rescuers with supplies, but the problem is now largely one of administration and the re-estab-lishment of lines of communication.