Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — RIVER SEINE ON RAMPAGE [ARTICLE]

RIVER SEINE ON RAMPAGE

Rising Waters Threaten to Disorganize Peace Plans. Paris, .Tan. 10.—The rising water* of the Seine now seriously threaten -to knock sky high the plans for the peace preliminaries at the foreign office. The river continues to-rise, with no sign of abatement of the flood. The great railway station of the Qual d’Orsay, only n quarter of a mile from the foreign office, is inundated. The low** tracks of the suburban station, within a stone’s throw of the foreign office are submerged and service has had to be abandoned.“