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Show 25 Perish in Alps Landslide Nice. France Twenty-five persons are known to have perished In land-, slides in the village of Roquevilliers, in the Alps Marltimes department, due to the recent heavy rainfall. The entire en-tire Belvidere mountain is suffering from slips of lands. Part of the village vil-lage of BolleJie-Vesuble lias been evacuated. evac-uated. The total fatalities In the stricken regions have not been ascertained, ascer-tained, and it is expected that a long time will elapse before the exact nunv ber is' determined. The victims are buried under thousands of tons of earth and would-be rescuers have been compelled to give up their attempts to dig out the bodies in the fear of caus ins further slides. |