FLOODS IN PARIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9709, 3 February 1910, Page 5

FLOODS IN PARIS.

STREETS PRACTICALLY CANALS.

ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OP DAMAGE FAR EXCEEDED.

Received February 2, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, February 1.

Reuters Paris Agency reports that many miles of streets, in the richest, equally with the poor quarters, are still practically canals, upon which boats, day and night, carry mails, telegrams, provisions and fuel. It is now certain that the original estimate of the damage—forty millions sterling—will be far exceeded in Paris and the suburbs, without reckoning the loss of employment by hundreds of thousands of workers. The weather continues fine, and the Seine has now fallen two feet. The President of the Chamber of Deputies announced that testimonies of sympathy, for which Frenchmen were deeply grateful, were being received from ail countries in the world. Queensland's gift was warmly appreciated.

SUMMARY VENGEANCE ON PILLAGERS.

Received February 2. 9.10 a.m. PARIS, February 1

French bluejackets pursued a boat load of Apaches (hooligans) at Alfortville, a suburb of Paris. Shots were exchanged, and the Apaches' boat was sunk, two being drowned. One man was hanged from a telephone pole. Eight male and female thieves in Paris were stripped and maltreated by an infuriated mob while being escorted to prison.

A pillager caught at Ivry, three and a-half miles from Notre' Dame, endeavoured to upset the police ooat. The policeman fastened him with s rope, threw him overboard, and towed him until unconscious. Many Parisians sent motor cars laden with loaves to the GenneviJhers district. The population is frequently hostile, believing that the dyke at Gennevilliers was cut in order to save Paris.