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May 19, 1927

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RIVAL NAVY SHELLS FORTS AT SHANGHAI; Strange Bombardment Comes Soon After Sudden Return of Chiang Kai-shek. RUMORS OF A COUP BY SUN Chiang, Now Reported Desperate, Brings Pressure to Raise Funds -- Arrests Merchant. RIVAL NAVY SHELLS FORTS AT SHANGHAI

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

Northern vessels shell forts at Shanghai soon after return of Chiang Kai-shek to city; rumors of coup by Sun Chuan-fang; his forces reported gathering at Tunghow, across Yangtze River above Shanghai

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15,000 ACADIANS IN FLIGHT FROM WATER AVALANCHE MORE THAN 30 FEET HIGH; PEOPLE RUSHING TO HILLS Hundreds Still Marooned on Levees North of Melville. BIG IRON BRIDGE COLLAPSES Man on It Is Hurled to Death, but Hero Rescues His Little Son. TWO HUGE LAKES MEETING Millions of Acres Are Covered in Western Valley of Atchafalaya -- Hoover Comforts Refugees. MAP OF FLOODED AREAS IN MISSISSIPPI STATE. 15,000 ACADIANS FLEE FROM FLOOD

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

NEW ORLEANS, May 18. -- The flood waters racing with giant crests through southern Avoyelles and the parish of St. Landry tonight are nearing St. Martin's, the parish that was the American setting of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and where at this moment between 10,000 and 15,000 people, mostly Acadian farmers, are in flight to the western highlands.

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Serge Lang

1927Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (died 2005)[†]

Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.