FLOODS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9703, 28 January 1910, Page 5

FLOODS.

THEIINUNDATIONIN FRANCE. RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received January 27, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, January 26. Traffic on the Paris-Orleans Railway has been suspended. The town of Charenton, near Paris, is flooded. The inhabitants of Macon, capital of the department of Saone et Loire, are abandoning their dwellings. The River Seine is swollen to double its usual width, and has risen another eighteen inches. Hundreds of thousands of Parisians are thronging the quays to watch carcases of cattle and horses broken pontoons, boats, and wash houses floating down in the swirling torrent. Preparations have been made to dynamite the Pont d'Alma, as the water has nearly reached the keystone.

One thousand seven hundred persons are homeless in Auteuil, a west* ern suburb of the city. The rest of the inhabitants are remaining in their houses, and are being fed by means of boats.

Armed police patrol the district in boats to prevent "Apaches" (hooligans) who be engaged in life saving, from looting the deserted residences.

There is fourteen feet of water at Alfort (at the junction of the Rivers Seine and Marne) owing to the rise of the Marne. Three thousand people have now been rescued, and 10,000 are still in danger. NEW SOUTH WALES FLOODS. Received January 27, 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, January 27. The town of Walgett, which was threatened by the floods, is safe from immediate inundation. The embankments are holding up, and the water is stationary.