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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 1st, 1927.

THE FLOODS. IN LOUISIANA.

FLOODED LANDS THRICE SIZE OF HOLLAND.

CONTROL OF MISSISSIPPI A NATIONAL

PROBLEM.

ARMY ENGINEERS AND RIVER COMMISSIONERS TO DRAW UP. PLANS,

CROWN COLONIES CONFERENCE.

IMPORTANT RESULTS.

MR. AMERY'S, REVIEW,

The Colonial Office Conference, attended by representatives of all the British Crown Colonies, con- cluded at the beginning of this month. On the final day the dele- gates were received by the Prime Minister at No. 10, Downing-

It has become only too clear that Javan sugar-cane for the variety in the famone man is fighting a losing battle with previously grown

Farmers Sugar-bow" parishes: the

angry Mississippi and its legions of swollen tributaries. An in general have had to face greater inland sea covers a great part of difficulties than any other section street.

At the closing sessions of the Louisiana and a new river, run-of the American people in recent ning parallel to its parent, is fore-years. Two had neasons have fol-Conference the delegates gave final ing its way across country to the lawed each other and ruinous die consideration to the report of their Mr. Amery, Secre- proceedings. Gulf. The disaster is of gigantic aster has now overwhelmed the dimcasions in the number of drown- small owners of Louisiana, when tary of State for the Colonies, ed furus and of fugitive human they had good reason to expect made a speech reviewing the work beings and above all in the volume bumper harvest.

That the loss of life has been of the mighty flooded rivers.

of the Conference.

It had been initiated at short

It was the red men who gave the relatively small is the only mitignotice, said Mr. Amery, but he had

Great River the name of Missis

his works.

of

most

We are remaining here or a short season longer. struggling gallantly to save the clong with such characteristic stub which it is for the Colonial Office

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"We have endorsed wholeheart- edly the principle of collectivo ac- tion, of collective finance, and of an efficient central organization in the field of scientific research. In the matter of agricultural research we have crystallized that principle in our acceptance of the main out- lines of the proposals embodied in the report of our Committee, which owed so mach to the accumulated experience in this subject and in- fectious enthusiasm of its chair- Tho man, Lord Loval. Committee's report was confined to agricultural research, but the Con- ference has definitely instructed the new joint Medical Research Coun- cil, of whose setting up it has ap- proved, to work out and submit to the Governments proposals for a scheme of medical research which will inevitably be on no less broad a basis than our schende of agricul tural research, and we have at any. rate visualized the prospect of both and forestry. voterinary research research being included within the ambit of the development of a not too distant future, when we shall bave been able to prepare the ground a little more adequately.

tion of a vast tragedy, Though even America has not yet tamed felt that the important thing was sippi, the Father of Walers." Had they been husbandmen instead her greatest river, the very com to inaugurate the principle of a of hunters they would surely have plete equipment of her country- Colonial Conference without de deified the river as the early side with the telephone and the lay and without the risks which at- telegraph and the organized vigil tend all postponements in this life. the Old World

You can only learn how deifin

Nearly to hold conferences by holding comparatively insignificant ance of the local authorities have. streins, and would have sacri- saved innumerable lives. ficed men and beasts to it as all of the inhabitants of the flood them, and the most successful series the ancients offered even their cd region seem to have had abun- of conferences must have a begin- children to those vast and pitiless dont warning of the danger and ming." The question: "Has our be forces of careless Nature which auf-most of them fully realized its ex-ginning, considered by itself, been fered man to prosper for a season tent and inuminence, though some unsuccessful?" he answered

emphatically in the negative," de and then overwhelmed him with all of the Acadians, whose banishment claring

of the French-speaking descendants

We have achieved solid to Louisiana ia commemorated in results in more than one direction, The Americans who Аге BLill Longfellow's Evangeline," have and we have sown much good sood last levees will certainly not deity bornness to their farms that in the and for the Governments concerned their adversary, but even they will end they had to be rescued almost to water, to tend

to vigorous be tempted to personify him and by force. Even allowing for the growth before we meet again to to think of Mississippi az a Napo- vast amount of material placed at consider what to do with the leon of rivers, and of Atchafalaya, the disposal of the local authori- fruit." Mr. Amery continued: Tensas, Arkansas and his other ties by the State and by the mighty tributaries as his Marstals Federal Governments fleets of or Allies Since the defence first ansall craft of every description, broke at St. John's Bayou in Mis from surf boats to revenue-cutters, souri and at Clarendon in Ar- and swarms of seaplanes--the fact kansas and 40,000 people fled from that the great majority of the pop their homes, the bulletins have re

Intion have escaped from a deluge corded a long series of disasters that covered the land in a few Even the one success of the defen-heure with fifteen feet of swirling ders, the saving of New Orlems, water bears striking testiumy to had to be purchased by the surren- the alertness and efficiency of the der of a huge area below the city Toni and central Governments in to the floods guided through an the work of wag and of rescuV. artificial breach in the embank-

The extent of the disaster, the ment Cat Poydras. Each day astronomical figures of dollars lost brought the same monotonous and and acres flooded, have frought tragic story of the bursting of the home to many Americans the neces barriers, the inrush of the brown sity for combined action between food, the hasty flight of the in the Federal Government and the habitants to the nearest refuge, and interested States of the Union in the inundation of vast tracta of order to prevent a repetition of rich and fertile land. Daily fresh this year's calamity. Minor floods tens of thousands of farmers aban have been frequent and destructive, don their homes and fields to an but this year the unprecedented invader who moves more swiftly has happened and all the chief tri- and more destructively than any butaries of the Lower and Middle human conqueror.

Mississippi have been simultaneous South-Western Illinois, Arkanaly in spate. Co-operation between as, Missouri, Mississippi, and parts the Federal and the State Govern of Kentucky and Tennessee have ments in the task of dredging and all been scourged in turn, but it deepening the great rivers has been is upon Louisiana, the old French fitful and has often been interrupt settlement which took its namo-ed-by-disputes.

The same principle of efficiency from Louis XIV., the

It now appears that the Federal in research through collective ac King," that the last and the Government has made up its mind tion ie embodied in our recommen heaviest foods have broken. Un-that the control of the Mississippi dations for research into the pro- of mechanical transport like some great rivers, the Missie is a task for the whole American bloms sippi increases in volume as it nation,

President Coolidge has which we are asking the Empire nears the sea: the huge tributary ordered the Corps of Army En Marketing Board to take up on stream of the Red River, itself a gineers and the Mississippi River our behalf, and indeed of others frequent menace to the lowlands, Commissioners to prepare a com- outside our sphere who are in- joins it little more than a hundred prehensive plan which will be sub-terested in co-operating with us. miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and mitted to Congress to prevent the In another direction, too, in a great part of the State is level recurrence of floods. The problem the all important field of education plain little above the normal flood to be solved is the regulation of we have decided to follow up the level and doozed should the the flow of a gigantic silt-bearing successful work of the Advisory

leveos - which

preserve the river which passes through an im Committee on African Education French tradition in their name mense plain. The silt einking to by enlarging our advisory er- yield to an unusually heavy attack the bottom is continually raising-ganization so as to cover the whole field of education in the Colonies. Here, as in the other States of the the bed of the river nearer to the middle and lower basin of the Mis-level-of the plain; only a small These improvements in our central sissippi, the spring rains have been proportion of it reaches the sea staff, have throughout in our minds achinery, in our great general exceptionally severe and prolonged. and wooner or later the time comes The rains have aided the floods when artificial embankments idea of securing the best men for been closely associated with the not only by increasing their volume neither high enough nor strong the service in the Colonies them- but by soaking and weakening the enough to cope with any sudden

As regards research soft crests of the embankments, and rise of the river level. That there selves, unusually violent winds have help are limits to the utility of embank workers, at any rate, they have well illustrated in been devised with the special aim

"Sun.

WAS

ed the waters to breach the batter- here China in 1866 when the of ureating both conditions of

ed ramparts of the defence.

lief

In the appeal for help which he Yellow River, the scourge of salary and opportunities of the recently addressed to the American China," after many tragic escapes best work for each man which should attract ability, and ambi- people, the Director of Flood Re-from its bonds, finally broke prison

tion. in Louisians described the altogether and, drowning multi-

There is, however, something Blooded lands, which are nearly tudes in its onrush, cut a new bed

beyond and above information or thrice as large as Holland, as the to the sea. There may be no single

the-more richest in the world. There may solution of the problem of the Missuggestions or even

positive results to be a little exaggeration in this sissippi, but it is not too much to substantial claim, but the areas which have hope that American ingenuity will which I have referred. That is the just been flooded produce excellent discover and that American wealth feeling which I think we have all cotton and a great variety of fud will finance practical schemes to shared as the Conference has de- veloped that we have created a new der and foodstuffs, and were to be prevent new calamities on an even the scene this year of a promising larger scale than the record-break- and better relationship between ourselves, between Colony and experiment in the substitution of ling deluge of 1927-Times.

Colony, as well as between the Colonies collectively and this Central Office here."

WAR COMRADES IN PEACE. ANGLO-FRENCH NAVAL UNITY. ADMIRALS LAY WREATHS TOGETHER.

and then stood a while, side by side, in salute. The ceremony was short, but nothing could have been more significant.

PORTSMOUTH'S FIRST BISHOP.

Afterwards the French Admiral motored to the City Memorial be side the garlanded Guildhall and

The King has approved the ap- laid a wreath there, in the presencepointment of the Venerable Eraest PORTSMOUTH.

the Mayor, to the memory of Neville Lovett, archdeacon and The old war comradeship of The Sons of Portsmouth, Glorious Novoortsmouth, honorary Britain and France was attested in ly Tallen," while the General Balute Canon of Winchester, and chaplain signal fashion when Admiral Pirot, was sounded and the band of the to the King, to be bishop of the commanding the French Squadron Royal Scots Fusiliers broko into the new diocese of Portsmouth. which recently visited England, and stirring strains of the French march Sir Osmond de Beauvoir Brock, the tune, Sambred et Meuse." PRICE: 50 Cts. per bottle Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth,

Growing Friendship, laid wreathe on the Royal Navy War Memorial, Portsmouth.

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It was the anniversary of Jutland, and the two Admirals signified the unity of their respective, Services in a way which was clear to every-

Together they left their cars; to in Portsmouth and received a salute 1922. He become archdeacon and gether they mounted the steps of of 10 guns from the Naval Saluting vicar of Portsmouth in 1924.

He is a brother of Sir (Harring- Station when he boarded the Lamotte-Picquet. In the afternoon ton) Verney Lovett, an ex-member Admiral Pirot gave a reception on of the Imperial Legislative Coun

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