Show PARISIANS ARE DESPERATE with streets flooded the once gay city presents desolate appearance of a vast lake paile the flood situation la Is improving tn fit this city anil and it Is believed the worst phase has been encountered officials are convinced that the end Is in fit sight and that the waters will begin to recede the city presents it weird spectacle Sul soldiers dierA sailors Bai lors firemen bremen and police are hastily constructing temporary walls walla by the light of camp campfires campf trea fires and torches in tin an endeavor to keep out the invading floods while pickets patrol those these sections of the city that are plunged fit n darkness president bailleres FaU FaIl lores leres and premier bri and on friday drove in automobiles to the flood flooded etl suburbs where distress to 1 greatest speaking words of comfort to the homeless and encouraging soldiers and others engaged in III salvage and rescue work Chati charitable table organizations are cooperating with the authorities in throwing open their buildings and in succoring refugees several convents and a number of public buildings have been equipped with military cots and bedding and transformed into hospitals the fled cross Is performing splendid service in distributing food and clothing nevertheless numerous instances are cited of women and children who had refused to leave their homes in the submerged districts shrieking from their windows for bread the number of refugees ui riving arriving here Is enor Ch arenton alone sending in who had got there from calais and other afflicted points many thrilling rescues are recorded the family of af barthol Oar Bar thou former minister of public works whoso choso home in III the avenue I Antin la Is surrounded was taken out on the backs ot of soldiers and in fit boats A largo large number of schools are ara c closed because of lack ot heat and the municipality Is con considering g tile the advisability vis ability of closing all communication with englana Ln INi glana gland holland denmark and austria and may many cities and towns in france Is completely cut off the telephone has been practically abandoned in parts paris new districts are being flooded constantly st and the people are evacuating blocks of buildings several hospitals where sick felt refugees were taken are in a dreadful plight the water having quenched fires dres in the furnaces |