| Show N 0 PARISIANS ARE DESPERATE with streets flooded the once gay city presents presenta desolate aphea appearance rance of a V vast ast lake paris tho dood situation is am pr pro this city and it Is believed the t phase has been encountered officials are convinced that the end la Is in sight and that the waters will bogin begin to recede The city presents a weird spectacle soldiers pal sailors lors firemen and police are hastily constructing temporary walls by the light ot of camp campfires fires and henAn Jn an endeavor to keep out the ibe invading floods willo while pickets patrol chose sections of the city that are plunged darkness in ln president fallieres Fall leres and premier dri bri and andon on friday drove in automobiles to tho iho flooded suburbs where dit distress tress is greatest speaking words of 0 comfort to the homeless and encouraging soldiers and others engaged in salvage and rescue work charitable organizations are coop co op orating crating with the authorities in throwing open their buildings and in succoring several convents and it number 0 of public buildings havo h avo been equipped with military cots cote and bedding and transformed into hospitals tho the red cross Is performing 9 splendid service in distributing food and clothing nevertheless numerous instances are cited cit edof ot women and children who had refused to leave their homes in the submerged districts shrieking from their windows tor for bread the number of refugees arriving here is enormous charenton clarenton Ch arenton alone sending in who had got there from calais and other afflicted points poin ta many thrilling rescued rescues are recorded the family of M barthau Bar thou former minister of public works whose home in the avenue dantin Is surrounded unde was taken out on the backs of soldiers soldier and in boats A largo number of schools are closed because of lack of heat and the municipality Is considering the th 0 advisability vis ability of closing all communication with england holland denmark and austria and many cities and towns in france Is completely cut off the telephone has b been een practically abandoned in parts paris new districts are being flooded constantly st people are evacuating blocks of buildings several hospi hospitals tILls where sick refugees were taken are in a dreadful plight the water waiter having quenched ores fires in the furnaces |
