HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW
ENGLAND'S COLD SNAP Received Monday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON. March 4. Bitterlv cold conditions during the weekend brought heavy falls of snow in Southoastern England, which blocked roads, cut off many villagers and left them without food services. The snow, whipped by a 60-mile-an-hour wind, which sw-ept the Channel nearly clear of shipping, fell ceaselessly for 24 hours and in some parts piled up in drifts as deep as nine feet. Sleighs were impressed into service to deliver newspapers between Deal and Dover. Conditions were also bad in tbe Midlands, Nortliern England and Scotland. Maior H. W. Tilman, leader of the 1938 Everest expedition, was yesterday rescued in a blizzard from an alpine hut 2500 feet up Ben Nevis. where he had been stranded for a week, suffering from a leg injury. The rescuers battled their way to the. hut through a fierce wind and blinding snow and carrced Tilman by a stretcher down the icG-covered mountain slopes.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 5
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