Show liVES LOST LOSTIN IN FLOODS OF NORTH AFRICA Devastated Region Cant Can't Be Cultivated For Five Years Y cars Fear ORAN Algeria Nov 29 By 21 By The Associated With every hour bringing fresh tidings of disaster it was as estimated ted today tod that the total loss oss 5 0 of life in tn the floods which swept wept northwestern Algeria would exceed The catastrophe is the worst ex experienced ex- ex experienced here her In 50 years The situation throughout the dis dis- district district dis- dis trieS is still grave The weather is bad The water while receding in some places is rising in others A torrential rainfall continues Communications have been cut ev ev- ev everywhere Rescue Re cue work is thus ex extremely ex- ex extremely difficult Efforts have been made to drop food from airplanes to the stricken villages of the country country- countrysIde side At where the worst damage wr ter t caused persons in including In- In IncludIng eluding CO GO Europeans perished Sev Sev- Several Several eral hundred are thought to have drowned In the outlying districts is crowded with refugees from these districts The railroad between Algiers and Oran was washed out in several places The roads are Impassable and many sections can be reached only by airplane An enormous mass of water descended on the town of Lam Lam- Lamina LamIna Lamins ina ins causing great damage there The waters threaten to burst a dam and engulf It is is- feared leared that the swept flood-swept region will VI be found impossible for cultivation for at least five live years |