Pa The flood situation ical. Amazing scenes remi of wartime are being enacted Paris and the riverside suburbs. The Sena to-day was 21} foot above normal. Phe flo-a burst the barriers of Alfortvilje "and undated the town. The population of 3,000 are evacuating: the town and work has been suspended in various factories and mills. Reuter.
The French wireless of the sume date sayn:—
There hax been fall mest butanes of the Seine excen the Yonne dist Ter the Pata tecer the suburbs are in ditheul especially Alfortville where some houses ave had vacated. Some Factories have stopped at Suresnes ad eaux. In Paris the proc us taken have up be the present limited the floods. The Fiffel 11.30 announced by asts of the Gigures Paris, Jan. 7.
The fall of the Seine has begun. A decrease of three itches was registered in Paris this: morning land one of 10 inches at Montersaw while the Mamo fell one and a half fect at Meaux. Tt is expect ed that by to-morrow the Seine Will have. fallen a foot at Pont Austerilt and that, the fall Will become more rapid after-
Seine Subsiding Slowly: Fund Opened for Relief of Sufferers Paris, Jan. 9.
Although the Seine ig falling slowly, the outlook it not roasstrnod. Meanvshile the situation Paris and the suburbs is much The maximum—height itood has now reached whens Ube quays are flood-
'AA meeting of Deputies repro senting the Departments of the
have decided tdntroduce a Seine Oise ap Scineotpening tt credit of Fs, 30,020 for the sufferers from. the floods and to create a permanent group, of Deputies of the three Depart-
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