Show Western E rope Swept Swep by Floods PARIS Dec 29 G Ui Floods Rh Floods harassed France Germany and Holland Monday after four days of of- hea heavy head y rain and and spring like like Ilg-like war warmth which warmth which melted snow in the footh foothills lis of the the Alps and mountains S Towns were isolated In Alsace and and pot potash si miners there were forc forced d from their pits The Moselle and Loire river valleys were flooded The Rhine Hv river r rose 99 inches in 24 hours at Er Br Breisach isach burg backing up streams tt that t brimmed over into the Black f forest for forest for for- rest r- r est est region Rail Rait river and highway high wa way traffic was dislocated In many runny parts of western Germany Dutch farmers fled with household household household house house- hold goods and Christmas trees when flood waters poured through a foot 60 break in the Dyke near in the the- eastern eastern east east- em ern Dutch province of AU All rivers of the Meuse Meus valley in Belgium between b tween the French b benden ben bor border r- r der den and Liege were swollen and threatened t 1 ito to oy overflow |