FLOODS IN FRANCE
DEVASTATION IN SOUTH WEST. ..SEVEN lIENDUED DEAD. Press Association— Copyright, (Received 9.45 a.m.) PARTS, March G. Tlip homt di (uivlution nontiinies IhDouglumt Ibo south-west. Jt is estimated that seven hundred are dead. V family of seven were found dead beneath the ruins of their home. A peasant seeing his house collapse whipped out a revolver and committed suicide before the horrified spectators could prevent him.
A husband and wife were clinging to branches together when their strength failed and they dropped into the flood. The population eulogise the Bengalese soldiers for their magnificent rescue work, some remaining for thirty hours in chilly waters.
Two German youths are credited with saving more than a hundred. A group of cavalrymen set out to rescue screaming children who were marooned on a diminishing island, hut met disaster, three horses and their riders being drowned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 10, 7 March 1930, Page 5
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