THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2722, 29 January 1910, Page 5

THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.

CABLE NEWS.

RIVERS SUBSIDING

(iNiTUDfePiiKSB Association —oOpyihgiit. PARIS, Jan. 27. The Seine and Marne are now subsiding. Some of the arches of the Orleans railway at Paris collapsed.

There has been a serious rise in the ‘prices of provisions in .Paris. Bread riots are threatened. Thousands were rescued from the eastern suburbs yesterday. Six hundred still cling to submerged dwellings. The platform at Gare de Lyons collapsed and the water under the Quai Austerlitz burst into the roadway.

ONE-FIFTH OF PARIS INUNDATED. (Received January 28, 11.5 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 28. The upper reaches of the Seine and Marne are subsiding. Excited crowds on the Parisian quays greeted the signs of the Seine falling with shouts of joy. . Fine weather and frost give hope that the worst is over. Meanwhile one-fifth of Paris is inundated, and 10,000 working men are idle. The Chamber of Deputies was completely cut .off, and members were carried from the Chambers 0 n the shoulders of attendants wearing sewerworkers’ boots. A dyke is being cut to save the Louvre. AMAZING RAPIDITY OF THE INUNDATION. A feature' of the floods is the amazing suddenness with which they reached their present proportions. Former inundations took two weeks or a month to attain their maximum. The present one took only a week: SURPRISING SUPERSTITION. There is a popular belief that the comet is the cause of the disaster.