PILLAGERS HANGED AND DROWNED.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12763, 3 February 1910, Page 2

PILLAGERS HANGED AND DROWNED.

[Press Association — Copyright.] Paris, Feb 1. Paris has had two clays' fine weather with a sharp frost, and the Seine is falling steadily. Each section of the city is under a board of architects, engineers, md sanitary experts. Disinfectant depots are being established, and motor ami other shallow boats have been sent from England by train and steamer to succour the homeless. Municipal watercarts are doling out pails of water as though it were milk. M. Briand, Premier, is arranging for special supplies of petroleum. The Archbishop of Paris held a service of praitence. He declared that the floods were a nail to repentance. The salon of the Louvre collection of casts has been flooded ;• but the Cathedral of Notre Dame is not seriously affected. A child in a cradle was swept away. The parents witnessed the loss, biit were helpless. French bluejackets pursued a boat load of Apaches (or hooligans) at Alfortville. Shots were exchanged and the Apaches' boat was sunk, two man being drowned. One was subsequently . hanged from a telephone nole. Eight male and feniale thieves while being escorted to prison were stripped and maltreated by an infuriated mob. A pillager caught at Ivry endecivouredjto upset the police boat. The policeman fastened him with a rope, threw him overboard, and towed him until he was unconscious. Many Parisians have sent motor c is laden with loaves to the Gennevilliers district. The population were frequently hostile, believing, that the dyke at Gennevilliers had . been out in order to save Paris.