HEW SIEGE OF PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 7

HEW SIEGE OF PARIS.

BY FLOODED SEINE. OUTBREAK' OF TYPHOID FEARED. I HOMELESS, 30,000. HISTORIC BUILDINGS EVACUATED, By Telegraph—Preßß ABSociation-rOopyrlffhL (Rec. January 28, 0.5 a.m.); i" . ' Paris, January 27. ■ SnowfaUs continue, to ' swell the Seine, and the water, is pouring over. the .parapets of tho embankment. . A lake is forming;whiioh has caused the' evacuation of the' Foreign Office, Hotel Do ViHe, and the Palais De Justice, where' divers are savipgrthe archives. The Chamber Vof Deputies ; is.; contemplating adjourning to '! Versailles. ', 1 ' i - . Traffic has ■ been suspended on, the Eue. St.; Honor, and ; Riie Eoyale, where there are subsidences. " ; immense amount of water is .percolating under, the foundations, . which is causing anxiety. ; .. The sewers are. not .■working, I 'and the Seine is "driving-back'the filth J which is .normally carried b'eybnd the city."'Medical scientists. fear an outbreak of typhoid from: the. drainage filling many , of the cellars. : : 'is estimated 30,000 .people in Ppris suburbs are • homeless. . The ;■ re--fuge'os are sheltering, at', Saint Sulpice Seminary; and the Pantheon, where' beds : ajid heating apparatus' haVe'.beeh installed. Other former v chnrch buildings .are being similarly utilised. : .': The Dion Bouton, inotor-cat factories at Puteaur' have ' closed, .'3500 ' men;' being, rendered workless. .•' • ■ Renter states -. that , official estimates place the damage : at:Jo' million sterling.: . A national fund 'has. been opened. ' RAILWAY TIIAITIC STOPPED. ' Paris, January 26. ■, .Traffic. on the' Pans-Orleans Railway has been; suspended.'; The town of' Charenton, iie'ar Paris, is flooded. • . The ..inhabitants of. Macon, - capital of the department of Saono "et Loire, •; are abandoning, their dwellings! ;