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WILL LEVEES HOLD? Terrific Force of Water Overflows Dykes A MATTER OF HOURS SAFETY OF NEW OITT ”3 Received May 13, 8.50 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, May 12. News from New Orleans states that while no definite break has yet occurred in the Bayou des Glaizes levee the water to-day began pouring over the Dyke levels, indicating that levee can hold possibly only four hours. The first break in the levee system guarding central and southern Louisiana occurred when the embankment at Baton Rouge crumpled near Cotton Port releasing part of the island sea which had spread over north eastern Louisiana. The effect of the break upon New Orleans is problematical. The city meteorological bureau renewed a warning that every precautionary measure should bo taken, the City Guards were withdrawn from the levees in the neighbourhood of the break, and the work* of raising the tops of the embankments was halted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 7
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