THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2721, 28 January 1910, Page 5

THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.

HOUSEHOLDERS ABANDON DWELLINGS. (Jnitkd Pause Ahhodiation —CorvniaiiT. PARIS, Jan. 26. Traffic on the Paris-Orleans railway has been suspended. Charenton is flooded. The inhabitants of Macon are abandoning their dwellings. RIVERS IST ILL RISING. (Received January 28, 12.5 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 27. ' Snowfalls continue to swell-the Seine. The water is pouring over the parapets of the embankment, and a lake forming caused the evacuation of the Foreign Office, the Hotel de Ville, and the Palais de Justice where divers are saving the archives. Tile Chamber of Deputies is contemplating adjourning to Versailles. Traffic is suspended in the Rue St. Honore and the Rue Royale, where there is a subsidence. A national relief fund has been opened. An immense amount of water is percolating under the foundations, causing anxiety. The sewers are not working. The Seine is driving back the filth which is normally carried beyond the city. Medical scientists fear typhoid from the drainage filling many cellars. DAMAGE £40,000,000. It is estimated that 30,000 persons in Paris and the suburbs are homeless. The refugees are sheltering in Saint Sulpice Seminary and the Pantheon, where beds and heating apparatus have been installed. Other former church buildings are similarly utilised. The De Dion and Bouton motor-car factories at Puteaux are closed, and 3500 men rendered workless. Reuter’s correspondent states that the official estimate of the damage is 40 millions sterling.