A tance pavt of the French Concession and the International Settle nen ly below the level reached Sundays high tide. The average tide is, we understand, about 391 tin, but on Sunday the level was as Thigh as 435 and 438 em. The level in. Siccawei Creek waa actually Higher, about 440 em. Some parts of the' French Concession—Avenae clu Rov Albert and Rue Bourgeat. for instance—are at the 391 cam novel. and thus floods are bound to cur when the river and creeks carry water at such a high level One means of mitigating the effect these foods is to raise the love of construction om building permits Tasucr, ft was pointed out bya French Concession official permitting no buildings to he erestti under the eonseruction level of 440 or 450 con, Moods can be pro-anted from invading homes. "On the other rand Increasing the eon-rection revel adds to the cost of ieilding: But. to. lonz_ as. foods cannot he avoided, it would seem to ive the aaCest method of preventing damage to homes, ie was stated.
The parts of the French Con-coming worse affected yoaterday were Avene Joffre, between Route Voiron ard Route des Soeuts, and the evea round Rue Massenet.
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