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Show FLOOD SITUATION !! FRANCE IS BRIGHTER Wafers Are Sleadil.v Falling and Work of Relief for Sufferers Suf-ferers Is Pushed. PA If IS, Fob. I.TIip height of the water ut midnight at. Pont Royal was 27 feet .' inches, a J'all of nearly four feet from the highest point, mid the flood continues to drop at the rath of tliiTP-quarfers of an inch an hour. Soldiers aro still guarding many public pub-lic buildings, and strong detachments have been sent to tho outlying districts to stop the wholesale pillaging that is still going 011. A patrol surprised a baud of " apaches" robbing a villa tonight at Boulogne-Sur-Seinc. After an exciting chase, in which a fusillade was exchanged, ex-changed, two ''apaches" were hilled, and the others were capturod. The city council, following the load of the national government, is arranging, arrang-ing, with the co-operation of the savings sav-ings institutions, to furnish money for rebuilding toros and houses and furnishing fur-nishing supplies. The government decided upon a gen-oral gen-oral scheme of -employment whereby those who desire work may find it in repairing roads and public buildings. The municipal council has adopted the suggest iou of presenting medals lo those who hav ' been conspicuous in I ho rescue res-cue work. These medals will bear the appropriate inscription, " Fluctuat nee Morgeritur," the motto of Paris. |