FLOODS IN FRANCE.
GREAT HAVOC CAUSED
SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED
Received Oclober 15, 8.43 a.m, PARIS, October 14.
News from the winegrowing provinces of France, where there have been exceptionally heavy floods recently, indicates that great havoc has been caused, which it will take years to repair. At Peripignan, the capital of the department of and thircy-five miles south by west of Narbonne, seven persons, to escape death from the floods, took refuge on the roof of a hcuse. This did. not save them, however, the whole party being drowned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8557, 16 October 1907, Page 5
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89FLOODS IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8557, 16 October 1907, Page 5
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