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Show Levee Break Brings New Danger Memphis, Tenn. The crevasse Into the Bayou Rouge levee will result ultimately ul-timately in the addition of G5.000 refugees re-fugees to the more than 300,000 already al-ready driven from their homes by the flood, in the opinion of Herbert Hoover, Hoov-er, secretary of commerce, who returned re-turned here from an exhausive study of the flood in the lower Mississippi vlaley. "The Bayou Rouge levee Is an extension of the Bayou des Glaises levee," the secretary 6ald, "but the damage done will be the same in the end. No loss of life will be caused by the crevasse. Our rescue fleet is mobilized mob-ilized all around the territory. When the situation became perilous we ordered or-dered additional boats down from Vicksburg. These boats are all well provisioned and can afford immediate relief for the new refugees " |