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MISSISSIPPI FLOOD REFUGEES.

AMERICA'S GREATEST DISASTER.

A DESPERATE TASK

STILL

AHEAD.

AUGUST 19th, 1927,

RELAYING PIC HONG KONG VOLUNTEER

CADILLY.-

THREE MONTHS'

OPERATIONS.

ONLY PARTIAL CLOSING,

Details concerning the relaying of Piccadilly have been made public.

The task of reconstruction may take only two or three months, instead of the period of four pre- viously estimated.

In any case the thoroughfare will not be closed in its entirety throughout relaying.

Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Minister of Transport explained the reasons for which it was considered impractic

able to sarry cut the work in halis

widths.

that:

DEFENCE CORPS.

(ORDERS BY LI, COL. 1. O, BIAD, D.§.0.. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.]

No. 200, - 1.-Artillery Company. All ranks are, reminded that, the winter training season starts On will be continued every Thursday Thursday, September 8th, 1997, and till further orders."

2.-Mounted Infantry Company. Parade at Stables at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23rd, August, 1997. Dress: Multi

3.-Recruits.

During the month of August any member of the Corps wishing to. introduce a recruit for enrolment should report at Corps Headquar ters between 3 p.m. and 8 pm, on Monday evenings.

NEW YORK, July 9th. acres inundated 1,300,000 cannot Pho-recent-transatlantic flights be used this year at all. Even as and other matters have crowded to the other 2,200,000 acres the tha bississippi-flood-out of the future in problematical, and crops will be possible only if Heaven' headlines, but this does not mean that it is not still a serious mat sends a long summer.

The farm- ter. Indeed, there is good reasoners were told by the Government to believe that this, the greatest not to plant cotton in the custom- domestic disaster in American his-ary careful way but to throw the tory, has not even yet reached its seed into the mud as soon as the water receded, while the ground most serious stage. As the waters

was till soft, and many of them gradually recede, it is possible to take stack of the resulting situa complied. The outcome of this ex- tion, and as a result of careful periment is still dubious. Others surveys which have been made dur. are planting corn, potatoes, cah. ing the past week it is beginning bages, or hay, or completely un-

A deputation, three in number. As the soy to be appareat that the problem familiar crops such

bean.

But the results will be representing the traders of Pic- which yet remains to be solved is

sparse, where there are any at all.cadilly, waited, upon the committee of the most desperate character.

Of the 600,000 persons whose Little Help For Hard-hit Farmers. of London Unionist members at the homes were inundated, at least

There is a current misapprehen-House of Commons, in order to one-half are still utterly destitute.sion as to the arrangements made submit suggestions for reducing the They are living on food supplied to give credit to farmers in inconvenience that will be occasion by the Red Cross, but this or the flood aren. Credit corporationsed during the closing of the thor ganisation will have exhausted its have been formed in each of the oughfare for repaving. Among the funds not much later than Noren States most severely affected, and points put before the M.P.'s were ber lat. What is then to become these will make loans with the of these unfortunate victims it is backing of the Federal Farm Loan impossible to say. A large Federal System. It is generally supposed appropriation for relief will ap that these arrangements will set parently be necessary, and this can the farmers on their feet again. only be voted by Congress. The In fact, however, the facilities thus next regular session does not be- provided will be of no se to those gin until December.

who need them most. are to be made without ample col- lateral, and many thousands of farmers have nothing whatever to offer as security. It is the custom in the South to borrow against a Advisory Committee, replied to the coming crop, but this year the deputation, explained that it was prospect is so gloomy that

impossible to adopt the suggestion financial institution

be would

that only half the street should be justified in lending against the

closed at one time. As regarded 1927 harvest. As a matter of fact, many banks and merchants have the provision of crossings and keep- already been hard hit by the flood. ing the footwalks free from obstruc

tions everything that was possible They hold the paper of large num- bers of cotton plantera and other would be done to meet the wishes farmers, whose total assets have of the traders.. been swept away. Thanks to the Federal Reserve System there is no cadilly circus to Brick-street, and danger of ́s Endicial panic; but the first section will be the stretch the credit situation is anything but from the Circus to St. James's

strcel. But_for_the_relaying...of] One of the States hardest hit is mains the work would not have Arkansas, where 1,500,000 acres of occupied more than about a month. good land has been submerged,

KEATING'S

The refugees are now in the pro- cess of being "repatriated," though many of their homes are still under water. In Washington County, Misisippi, for example; 85 per cent of the land is submerg ed, and it is catimated that this condition will continue at

least until August. Last month occur red the annual flood known as the June rize," and while not so ser- ious as its predecessor it submerged many towns again, some, of them for the third time this year.

Plague of Gnats and Mosquitoes.

As the refugees straggle back, appalling scenes of desolation meet their eyes. The fertile Belds of wrly spring are now great desolate

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No loans

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During the work Piccadilly abould be closed on only one side and should be used as a one-way street.

All possible steps · should be. taken to keep the footwalks clear of material so as to admit of the free passage of pedestriana..

Crossing places should be 'pro- vided at a distance of not mare than ifty yards apart.

41

Sir, Henry Jackson, M.P., who, as a member of the London Traffic

'Re-paving' will extend from Pic-

ABLE.

4.-Strength.

The following are taken on the strength, as from August 13th, 192, and posted as undert

No. 1984 Spr. A. Tarbuck, En-

gineer Company,

No. 1265 Pte. J. H. Marshail,

Mounted Infantry Company. 5.-Death Of Capt. D. C. Logan, M.O.

The Commandant, records, with deep regret, the death of Capt. D. C. Logan, M.C., Scottish Com- pany, H.K.V.D.C.

6.--Beversion..

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

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No. 893 Bdr. Artillery Company, is permitted to ravert to the ranks at his own re- quest, as from August 19th, 1927.

7.-Leave.

The following are granted leave of absence from the Corps:

Lieut. J. C. Macgown, Medical Section, from August 30th, 1927, to August 30th, 1998. 2/Licut. G. Duncan, M.B.E., Scottish Company, from Aug. 18th, 1927, to September 18th, 1027.

8.--Struck off. The following are struck off the strength, as from August 15th, 1927,

left the

Weller,

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Armoured Car Company, No. 1169 Pte. P. M. Baptista, No.

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Capt. D. C. Logan, M.C., Scottish Dor & Wings 07.

Company (deceased) is struck off the strength, as from Aug.

18th, 1997,

R. A. Wocre Murray, Major,

Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 19th, 1927.

NOTICE..

Armoured Car Company. A meeting of Officers and N:C:0,"a will be held at Corps Headquarters on Monday, August 2nd, at 3.45 p.m. to discuss future training ar- rangements. The attendance of

and any Sergeant unable to attend should advise C.S.M. A. C. Groves immediately..

"wastes of mud, in which appear windowless, doorless houses, may of which have been moved from their foundations and partially or completely overturned. Much good constituting about one quarter of HALF-WIDTHS NOT PRACTIC. Sergeants is particularly desired land has been covered with barren the State's agricultural area. The sand; either in sicooth layers, or damage done that State is in the drier regions, whipped by £20,000,000 to £40,000,000, or per the wind into great fantastic baps as much as £20 for every per

in the State. dunes. Here and there, half-sub-

(The 'total merged in the slime and mud, are damage done by the flood is still

decaying bodies. of farm estimated by animals, poisoning the air with £40,000,000 to £80,000,000, though

the

Aon

Mr.

The matter was raised in, the House of Commons by Sir N. Grat- tan Doyle, who asked whether the Minister had considered the possi- EAST ASIATIC RUBBER bility of using this thoroughfare as Hoover at a one-way street during the period of the proposed repairs, so as to community.

"

ESTATES.

their stench. A plague of gnats private individuals put it much mitigate the loss to the" business Asiatic Rubber Estates shows a

and mosquitoes is visiting the land, higher.) bringing an imminent peril of The picture in mot, of course, malaria and fever: already the one of unrelieved gloom. The loss of life has been extraordinarily State of Arkansas (pronounced, amali, largely due to the work of Arkansaw) has been forced to ap- the Red Cross and

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EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

August 18th, 1927. ChE LONDON.

Telegraphic Transfer ".. 1/11 Bank Billa, on demand 3/11 7/16

Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight

Bank Bil, at 4 months'

night

JA

+

Beak

propriate 320,000 to fight the dan- Hoover's remarkable achievement politan Water Board, and certain rubber sold realised an average OR BOMBAY Transfor

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Baak Bills, on demand... Bank SHANGHAL Hank Bile, at sight

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1.205 80

131

131.

The annual report of the East

Credits, at months' sight 2/0 7/18

Lieut-Col. Wilfrid Ashley re-

trading profit for the year of

sight... ... 9/09/16 £108,644 or, less depreciation, etc., O PA Bills, on demand plied: "Piccadilly has not been resurfaced for about fifteen years, per cent. making 20 for the sear A final dividend of 10 £121,302. and the work has now become

Uredits, 4 months' sight or question of urgency.

and a carry forward of 241,202 Os New Yo

YORK- 1 was sanctioned by the general meet Bank Billa, on demand The Post Office, the Metro ing in London on July 20th. The

at 60 days' sight... Credits, electric light and gas companies of Is. 11.358. ger of epidemic (in addition to in organising the task of rescue. require at the same time to carry estimated production for this year per pound. The large sums spent for this purpose A large amount insurance by the Red Cross). ·

money will be spent in the flood out extensive works on their own 3,477,000lbs. The total area of OR CALCULA

account. The possibility of carry- The plight of the returning re-aren, giving employment to many ing cut the work in half-widths the estates is 13,180 acres of which fugees is nothing short of tragic. persons in the task of rehabilita

10,821 are in tapping. During the has been carefully considered, but, year 1,700 acres of new land were They come home to find. in many tion. Federal aid will be given to in view of the magnitude of the taken in and prepared.. cases, everything they owned de- the extent Beveral million operations, the engineering diffi- stroyed, and must begin again like panads this year, particularly in culties, and the delay in completion pioneers in the wilderness, facing the restoration of levees. The that would be involved, it has been some hardships which even the destruction of cotton has already decided that such a course is im- pioneers did not confront. The sent the price up from a level practicable, and would not be in Red Cross will feed and clothe which the South regarded as dan the interests of traffic nor, in my them, but it cannot go farther than gerously low. All these ad- opinion, would it be in the in- British shipowners are paying O BAI/7 demand that. Their immediate problem is vantages, however, become interests of the traders themselves... how to earn a living for them significant when weighed against I would add that the Westminster economical steaming, and compara selves. The flood waters have re the lom, sad against the prospect City Council and all the under- tive tests have shown that with mained upon the land so long that, of really appalling soffering when bakers centarned have agreed to small additional coat considerable Recording to a careful estimate by the cold weather comes.-Man work day and night while the work savings in Exel can be effected." Al Secretary Hoover, ol 3,500,000 chester Guardian.

though, of course, the orders are

unimportant comparatively dividually, and are not to be com Pared with the ataze for converting compound engines into triple er pansions in the eighties and nine- ties they make a very useful addition to the contract list for

TOWN OF YOUTH.

2,000 CHILDREN IN ONE STREET.

ECONOMICAL STEAMING.

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Bir N. Grattan Doyle: Can the Minister give any guarantee that the work will not take longer than stood there would be a marriage two or three months? on that day. The vicar added: Lieat-Colonel Ashley No; I can There has also been very strong not give that guarantee, but it competition among mothers who shall be done as quickly as possible. have wished their babies to be The only cessation of work in the British yardi.

Among the most usual conver the first baptised at the church, twenty-four hours will be where and there will be about 12 there are houses in which peoplesions is the installation of super- children christened to-morrow. are sleeping when the drill will heaters. The Ellerman Lines, whose steamers run a comfortable inter- Becontree is a town of youth. not be worked at night. It is really extraordinary how Sir F. Hall (U., Dulwich): Con-mediate, service at the lowest pos- many children there are bere. Insidering the large number of un-sible rate, have always been very one street alone there are 2,000 employed, is it not possible to in- keenly interested in any scheme to children, which I should think crease the number of men working, improve economy, and are now must be almost a record for a so as to reduce the time in which leading the movement to install

super-heaters The City of Venice. operations will be carried oni street of the same size..

Lieut. Colonel W. Ashley: All the has already been handled on the en whe can usefully be employed Tyne, the City of Canterbury is will be employed

following her immediately, and it Mr. H. Williams (., Bending): is possible that numerous other Would it not be more economical passenger liners will follow them. in relation to passenger ships, how in the long run to do all sections The scheme is not only of interest together and employ more men

Lieut.-Colonel W. Ashley: No; I ever, for some of the keenest of the think the difficulties in dealing cargo-carrying companies, particu with the traffic would be very great, larly those in competition with for- indeed with such a long line they sign motor ships, are carrying out would be almost insuperable. experiments in the same directions

"Young engaged people living at the recently built Becontree housing estate, near Ilford, Essex, have been eagerly competing for the privilege of being the first to be married at the new church of St. Thomas, which was consecrated by the Bishop of Chelmsford. It serves

In his address at the consecra a parish with a population of 30,000.

tion the Bishop of Chelmsford The genial vicar of the new stated that three other sites had church, the Rev. A Butterworth, been bought for churches, and the would have to spend THERAPION No. 1 told a reporter after the consecra Church THERAPION NO. 2 tion that quite a number of couples £100,000 in order to make adequate had shown a desire to be the first provision for the spiritual welfare THERAPION No. 3 people married at the church. of those living on the estate,

Owing to questions of licensing it

THE NEW FRINGE KIKIDI.

Mo a te saddar Calirchi - No. 3 Be Blond à Khês

DUNN X&. # or thronie Werkzannes; BOKU KI would not be possible to have any Recently the 10,000th house was MAD Doy Heraemonk Mas, Landesgor marriages at the church until the occupied, and the population is now MAIL PRO 90, Boman-Eng New Yost Car of 5, following Saturday, but he under- 60,000.

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785

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89.25

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