FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12985, 28 January 1910, Page 5

FLOODS IN FRANCE.

SCENES OF DEVASTATION. Flood Waters Still Rising. 30,000 Parisians Homeless. Damage Estimated at £40,000,000; Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received January 28, 8.30 a.m. PARIS, January 27. ' Snowfalls continue to swell the Seine. The water is pouring over the parapets of the embankment, a lake forming, which caused the evacuation of the Foreign Office, the Hotel deYilk, and the Palais de Justice, where divers arc saving the arc saving the archives. , ■ ~ The Chamber of Deputies is contemplating adjourning to Versailles. Traffic is suspended in the Rue St. Honcre and the Rue Royale, where there are subsidences. '

A national fund has been opened. An immense amount of water is percolating ‘ under the foundations of buildings and causing anxiety. The sewers are not working, and the Seine is driving back the filth, which was normally carried beyond the city. Medical scientists fear typhoid from the drainage which is filling many cellars. It is estimated that 30,000 • people in Tatis and suburbs are homeless.

Refugees are sheltering in the St. Sulpice Seminary and in 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 Pubeaux are closed and 3500 are workless.

Reuter says that official estimates put the damage at 40 million sterling.