1927-05-18 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927.

SCENES IN MISSISSIPPI AREA.

SUMMER PYJAMAS

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Within a few days after the Mississippi flood reached its height, the Red Cross established 32 refugee camps. Many of them, such as the one near Hickman, Kentucky, shown above, are tent colonies. Many thousands of homeless people are being accom- inodated, and $5,000.000 (gold is being raised for their assistance.

This picture shows the $4,000,000 power dam at Powersité. Missouri, on Lake Taneycoma, with "20 feet of flood wators rushing over it. The towns of Branson, "Hallister and Forsyth would have been washed off the map had the dam falled to hold.

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This remarkable view from an aeroplane shows the main levee of the Mississippi river, near Now Madrid, Missouri, actually breaking away, under the force of flood waters.

This picture, taken from an aeroplane, shows men desperately working to patch a break in the main lovee of the Mississippi at New Madrid, Missouri: The sand-loaded boat is being used as a breakwater, while bags of sand" are being placed where the breach has occurred.

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