FLOODS IN FRANCE.
Press Association—Copyright. ‘ j Paris, September 30. j Torrential rains in the South of Franc© j have swollen the rivers causing terrible j floods in the departments of Herault, j Card, Pouches Du Ehone, Vauohise, and j Var. . | Traffic is entirely suspended in some . parts and greatly interrupted elsewhere, j The Ehone is still rising fast. _ _ I Many people are imprisoned in their ] homes at Beziers and Agde and aro j suffering from lack of food. Salvage i corps rescued numbers by means of boats j and pontoons. ; It is feared there are many deaths. It is computed that ten million gallons of wine have been lost in Herault alone. Two thousand Agdo grape pickers aro homoless. On the plain at Floreusac the flood was so sudden that numbers of vintagers had barely time to escape. M. Fathers and throe Ministers aro hastening south.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8937, 1 October 1907, Page 2
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146FLOODS IN FRANCE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8937, 1 October 1907, Page 2
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