Show I FLOODS IN FRANCE I EFFECT AFTER-EFFECT OF WAR WARn WARDT DT n- International Tnt News i Itt Paris Feb cb 2 ono Ono of oC tho most moat cu curious en- en u- u rious and at tho the same sarno time limo disastrous consequences of ot tho the war In Franco Is IA tho the unusual frequency and extent of ot floods In all rivers passing through tho the shelled areas Recent high w water ter In inthe tho the Seine and Marne rivers threatened Ia Ia I Ia a repetition of oC the disastrous Paris floods of ot 1910 1310 and swamped scores of ot I villages in iii tho the Marno valley vaHey destroying millions of ot dollars dollars' worth of oC property properly Tho The official explanation Is 13 that the I Marne now flows Clows through a stretch of ot war war-i war stricken country denuded of oC all aJl I trees and heavy undergrowth Trees and y vegetation absorb much of or the rainfall which In th their lr absence flows directly down the watersheds 0 I |