FLOODS IN FRANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 7

FLOODS IN FRANCE.

PATHETIC EPISODES. i 10,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS. YOUTH’S HEROIC RESCUE WORK. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, March 6. Aeroplanes rescued 16 men who were immersed at Saint Rafricc 48 hours. The death roll at Moissau, which is 200, would have been much higher, hut most of the poople at Ilagenbcck’s Circus. Otherwise they would have been trapped in their beds. The market place is _ now an encampment for the circus animals.' A distressing story is told of one villager, who clutched at two small children and climbed to the top 0 ‘ wall, but was obliged to watch hope lessly while four others of his fani s, including his wife, were swept on y UI A weeping and mud-stained woman, who was seen .pushing her piled up with furniture and cloth-s was asked where she was going. Sho replied: “Anywhere; I do not can. My husband has been drowned, and our child was in his arms. A wealthy youth was drowned after he had helped more than iuu persons to escape Iron, homes. The Minister of Public Yioiks, . . Pernot, pinned the ribbon of l Legion of Honour on the dead youths breast at the hospital. It is impossible to estimate the total death roll until the end of the week as bodies are continually being foui in Lhe ruins of the houses.