FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12983, 26 January 1910, Page 5

FLOODS IN FRANCE.

RIVERS RISING EVERYWHERE. Seine Rises 25 Feet. Enormous Damage. Refugees Pouring into Paris. Press Association.—Telegraph .—Copyright. PARIS, January 25. The’heavy rainfall in Paris persists. The' Seine has risen 25 feet. .The Seine is above the roadway, and the water is percolating through the embankment in many places. Immense quantities of building material and cement, which were being discharged pn the quays, were swept aiway. The electric light on the Chamber of Deputes is useless as the machineiy in the basement is under water. 1 All electric trams,;are stcjpped. Two thousand refugees,! driven from their Jiomes at Alfort, have arrived in Paris. All the rivers in France, except the Garonne and Dordogne, are flooded. HALF FRANCE UNDER WATER. LONDON, January 25. The Times’ Paris correspondent says that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that nearly half of France is under water. MOTOR-CAR WORKS CLOSED. PARIS, January 25. The floods have closed the Renault motor-car works, at Billancourst, and 2500 are workless.