SUBSIDING WATERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 728, 29 January 1910, Page 5

SUBSIDING WATERS.

. \^-__-___4_______ :'■;•;.'.. DRENCHED PARIS. > ■■■ ' HIGH PRICES MAT ■ CAUSE BREAD' ::'; ;•-' ':.;.. RIOTS.. ■"," v -/y.-\ By TolegraDbA-Prcss Association-^OonyriEht ':.-;"•'-,".. Paris, January 27. The rivers Seine ; and'Marne-are now subsiding. . ■ .:--. Some of the arches of tie Orleans Railway' ih Paris have collapsed. ■There has been ai.serious rise in the prices of provisions in Paris. Bread riots are threatened. .'. , ....-:: ...'-.'..■ :_ Thousands of persons were rescued in the Eastern suburbs; of the capital yesterday. : Six ..hundred are still clinging to submerged dweUings. ; , .;,:. , :■ .Tho platform, of the Paris'terminus'of the Lyons. Railway, collapsed,: and the water, under the Quai: d'AusterUta burst into the roadway. ■■■'-, - ' JOY OF PARISIANS WATCHINiB . :-. ; SEINE.;: .ONE-FIFTH OF ; THE(3TT STILL ;'...' -.',- ■'.'■' INUNDATED. : ": ' PEOPLE BLAME THE COMET.; ',-'■ , : /,,;:(Rec. January ,'2B, 11.5 p.m.) ■'.';. '■ ■ : '-:]V Paris, January 28. ; The-floods in the upper.reaches;of the Seine and,the.Ma'rho are subsiding. ' : . , .Excited crowds on the Parisian quays' greeted the signs of the' Seine falling with shouts of joy. 'Fine weather, 'with frost,: gives hope that the worst.is ever. : Meanwhile", one-fifth of Paris.is innhdated, and 100,000 workmen are idle. '. •The .Chamber of Deputies is completely cut: off. .'Members. are carried to -, the Chamber'on the' shoulders of attendants ; wearing' boots.' ; .' A: dyke-is. being cut to ■:.'■■■ :....:>. , A feature of.the floods is the ; amazing suddenness with -which' they have reached their.; present"' proportions.,' Former, inundations took' two .weeks or.;.a month to attain the; maximum... The present flood took a..week. '.':'■.. - : '■-. .'.".- ..There is at popular belief that the comet is the-cause: of the: disaster..:"'.■:'