Sixteen persons are dead and seven missing as a result of raging floods here. Hollwood and the whole film district are virtually isolated The damage has been estimated a £500,000.
Miss Norma Shearer, Miss Ginger Rogers and Mr. Richard Dix are among the many film stars marooned. Miss Madeleine Carroll was rescued front her home on the beach by a a Coast Guard cutter. Mr. Robert Taylor's house is under several feet of water and Mr. Clark Gable was forced to abandon his car on a flooded road.—Reuter.
Wireless is Sole Contact San Francisco, Mar. 3.
Wireless was to-day the sole means of communication between Californla's two largest cities, San Francisco Amsterdam, Mar, 3 In connection with the forthcoming visit of Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia, to the Netherlands East Indies, the "Syndey Morning Herald" suggests that the: Governor-General should travel on board an Australian warship in order to "emphasize the real character of the- visit" The paper further contended that ce-operation among Britain, the Netherlans and Australia would be necessary even under normal circumstances, ' and that therefore such ce-operation was more urgent than ever to-day in view of the situation in the Far East.
Replying to this article, the "Tele-graf" here states that the invitation tended to Lord Gowrie by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies was purely an act of courtesy arising in the fact.the steamer in which Lord Gowrie will travel to England must in any case call en-youre at the Netherlands East Indi Lord Gowrie's visit is entirely unpolitical, according to the "Tele-graf," which protests against the constant British efforts to draw the Netherlands into conversation of a military defensive nature in the Far East.—Trans-Ocean. and Los Angeles, as telephone and telegraph lines failed; completely at 1 o'clock this morning.-United Press.
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