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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3609, 5 February 1883, Page 3

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The floods of tho Rhine luia-o made terrible ravages and many districts Avill never regain their former j.rosj.erity. On January 10th Raab on the Danube aa-;is submerged, and many persons Avere drowned. Tho French General Chanzy died of _ a rupture of a blood A-essel in his head AA'hile asleep. On hearing of his death General Horex de A 7 aldan clied at Lisle of apojilcxy on January Oth. Prince 'Bismark's appearance in the Reichstag on the 9th evoked general sympatha\ He seemed AA-cak and in pain, and it is'doubted if he Avill be able to attend the sitting of the Reichstag in future. A petition signed by 0,000 persons has been presented to the Reichstag asking the enactment of a L-iav closing commercial and industrial establishments on Sunday. The Paris Rappcl on January 15 ridiculed the unveiling of the statue of the Prince Imperial by the Prince of AVales, and stif-matized the English nation as a herd of cattle, and the English army as an "army of women." The rest of the Paris journals also join in the Rappel's remarks. A ukase by the Czar dissolves all secret societies in his domains. The Emperor and Euijircss of Russia arrived at St. Petersburg on January 13th, and immediately visited the Kassan. fortress and cathedral. * Detectives and spies Avere increased in every direction. The province of Murcia, Spain, was shaken by an earthquake on Saturday, 13th January. The losses by the floods in Germany arc estimated at 80,000,000 marks.