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Show FLOODS SWEEP ENGLISH AREAS i i LONDON, Feb. t lV Ths worst floods In a quarter of a century , were pradlcUd today aa steadily rla- Ing rivers," spurred Byoneseslng reins, aubmerged wider aectlona of England and France. More heavy rain waa forecast fat ' both countries. Bwollen rivers drove inhabitants from their homes la lowlands, and, in some places, flood tides rose in city streets to the rooftops roof-tops of dwellings. Parts of IS counties In southern England were flooded. Thousands of acres of farming land ware Inundated Inun-dated and large numbers of householders house-holders wera forced to flee their homes along several stretches of tha Thames river. Thamea Oa Rampage Flood waters from the Thamea, a mile wide at Runnymede, near Windsor, and almost as wide at Eton, continued to spread. Eton college boys fed swans from upper windows in their school buildings. Northern Franca and Normandy Were hardest hit Li Us, Bethuen and Haaebrouck were invaded by fleoda. Tha Seine river recorded create eight feet above normal and rose persistently. I The situation waa grave at Lille nd at Armentieres. Paris Watches Seine The possibility grew that Paris, where tha flood stage of tha Seine is 14 feet, might be endangered unless un-less the downpours abated. The river through the capital is confined by stone walled banks which are rarely overflowed and officials said the situation was not acute. ' ' Several lighthouse keepers, off ahore and on lonely points, were stranded by heavy seas and washed-out washed-out roads. Their provisions, how-aver, how-aver, were said to be ample. |