EUROPE COVERED WITH SNOW

Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1947, Page 5

EUROPE COVERED WITH SNOW

Press Assn.

HEKE B1SERY AMONG P00B1E GE8MANS.

By Telegraph

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Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m, LONDON, Jan. 7. Almost the wliel e of the United Ivingdom is eovered ivith snow. London with a ma'ximum of 28 degrees had the coldest day since January 1942. Tonight the snow is- freezing liard and trains are.slowed down and road services curtailcd. Reuter's Hamburg eorrespondent says tliat icebreakers are out. in the Kiel Canal. The inuer harbour of Kiel .is also freezing. Thirty-one thousand tons of coal are locked up on frozen-in Iihine . ba rges. In Hamburg it lias not been so cold since the big frost of 1928. The. thermometer dropped to 35 below freezing point and all indus-ti-y eeased, and places of ■ amusement were closed. Even some British n'lesses are ivithout hcat or lightir.g. The misery of the poorer Oermans is intense. Herded. in cellars, Nissen huts and ruined houses they have reached a state of apathy. The children are in rags and shoelcss. In B'remen, however, nurseries with specially heated rooms have been opened as refuges for children up to two. Reuter's Vienmi eorrespondent says 31 degrees of frost were ' recorded in parts oi; Austria with frosts 20 beloW in Vienna. Xumerous cases of t'rostbite have been admitted to hospital. R'ome reports nine deatlis from the cold, inchiding an escaped. prisoner. The first snow since 1942 blanketed Rome. ,