17 MARCH 1928, Page 3

America, North and South, has been visited this week by

'calamities which call for our syinpathy with our friends in the United States and in Brazil. The waters of the Santa Clara river; which are 'dammed in the St. :Francis Reservoir to supply water to Los Angeles, forty- five miles away, burst intO the San Franeisquito Cation with terrific force on Tuesday, drowning hundreds of persons. hiring in the valley._ At Santos in Brazil on _Saturday there was a landslip Of enormous dimensions from Monte Serrat, which stands above the city. Many . _ .

lives were lost, and judging from further open fissures . . . the danger is not past, especially as heavy rain continues to fall.