Show fAMOUS WINf INE CITY FlOOD Devastation in c Gen Oen 1 Eur Europe pe T Grows Grow lj in PAnS PARIS central Dec 31 C A fit Tho J Thc The fl floods foods dS Europe continue to Spread notably In eastern Hungary Ther There the Theiss river Is 28 f et feet teet ab above v normal level at Tokay famous l for r Its Us wines The devastation by th tb tha waters is being added to b by Ic lea Jams forming at bridges Ih These se great masses of ice ar arp arf being berng d de Je by artillery artIery hel shell hell fire tIre but with wih some d damage mage to tl the bridges brIdges Thousands thousands thousand upon perSons per per- sons driven from their home homes 8 flocking to cities cites which are ano no C flood lood level I While eve the situation in 1 Franc rall thus far is Is merely threatening the tie rivers notwithstanding official e optimism op- op continue to rise at a fast tasi rate in tho the east west vest and It It- I. I Itis is now admitted that th the peak of or the to flood will wi not be r reached ached before Sunday This Is duo dUe Ju to the the weather The thermometer ter tel In lq Paris persists In at 60 degrees Fahrenheit the south at many places i it stands at more than 80 degrees J The Te flood situation has been com com- by a recurrence e of last weeks week's hurricane which has put u tl the half halt restored telegraph system ut of commission again The l to tower wireless aerial was carried aW away Y by th thou wind and in consequence conse conse quente quence of ot this the actual state of f in In 8 not noL fully tuny known p VM The situation In Belgium Delium a appears pears s to to to-be to be worse than in France If The and Aleuse Ieuse have 1 gotten out of their banks and mu much h damage has been done one in the Charleroi Charleroi Char Char- leroi leol Namur Namur and Dinar t districts districtS The Belgian railroad services are disorganized M I Meager dispatches from Atlantic C Cand I and channel coast towns report fa a aI I terrible southwesterly gale and andI mountainous seas A number of or ships are missing or overdue JM I S T Ti orts orts' are crowded with stormbound storm storm- bound t craft craff The weather burea bureau I forecasts a continuation of prevail ing meteorological conditions so eo that that the new year likely will wU r rI re receIve re- re I ve ce e an Inauspicious OUS st start J |