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May 16, 1927

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DRIVE ON THE NORTH STARTED BY CHIANG; PUKOW IS CAPTURED; He Occupies Junction on the Railway to Tientsin, Capturing White Russians. ADDS MEMBER TO CABINET Wang Pah-chuan Becomes the Minister of Commerce -- Dr. Wu to See British Envoy. SHANGHAI SITUATION EASIER Foreign Defense Relaxed, Elaborate Precautions Cease and Our Blue-Jackets Return to Ships. DRIVE ON THE NORTH STATED BY CHIANG

By Frederick Moore.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times.by Frederick Moore

C C Wu, Foreign Minister in Nanking Govt, plans to see him

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1,300 REFUGEES IN FLOOD ARE RESCUED BY BOATS AS LOUISIANA DIKES GO; WARNINGS WERE UNHEEDED Trapped at Simmesport as Water Pierces 50-Mile Embankment. 800 CAUGHT IN MANSURA Mercy Fleet Battles Way to the Victims Through Great Turbulent Waters. 75,000 STILL IN DANGER ZONE Relief Director Parker Flashes Order for Evacuation of Entire New Area Menaced. 1,300 REFUGEES RESCUED IN FLOOD

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

NEW ORLEANS, May 15. -- Thousands of persons whose homes are in the path of the mighty avalanche of waters now sweeping south to the Gulf through the western half of the Atachafalaya basin are tonight fleeing to the highlands for safety from the flood torrents which are racing and roaring through the Evangeline country at terrifying speed and in a volume the vastness of which is beyond computation.

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LONDON RAID YIELDS RED PLOT EVIDENCE; Authorities Uncover Soviet Propaganda Scheme Masked by Arcos Trading Business. WORLD REVOLT PROJECTED Proof of Continental Links and List of Agents Found -- All Russia in Ferment of Protest. LONDON RAID YIELDS RED PLOT EVIDENCE

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Companyby Wireless To the New York Times

London raid yields evidence of Red plot; missing State document not found; statement by J Boeff, Chmn of Soviet Trade Delegation; protest against raid by General Council of Trades Union Cong; reports of credit deal explained; protests in Russia

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