Sixth Day of Biggest Freeze

Chronicle (Levin), 11 January 1947, Page 5

Sixth Day of Biggest Freeze

Press Assn.

PROBLEM OF TRANSPORTATION

jV Telegraph

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Received Friday, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 10. Because of the ditticul-ty m digging graves in the frost-bound ' eartli ai Hamburg, the British have alloeateu extra coal to the crematoriums. Thv authorities, on the sixth day of the biggest freeze, faced tlie problem ot whether the few remaining means oi transport should be used for carrving coal or food. The Rhine is conipleteL closed to navigation, and the Britisn have announced that they will have to stop electricity' exports to Belgiuni ano H oi land. Tlie number of deaths from cold iu Hamburg is now 24. Troops are busy converting Hamburg 's great flak towei and army barraeks into vvarming halb where .1500 people will be "thawen out" at a time. More than 150 girls employed by the British Gontrol Gommission in Hani burg, wlio were evacuat-ed from their frozen billets to ari hotel yesterday, threaten to strike because thev are stili shivering in their new quarters. The\ are sleeping on couchcs, with only one slieet and one blanket. Th ey had f-o sleep in their greatcoats and gloves aml even had to work in their oifices in greatcoats. Hamburg grave-diggors, after six more deaths from the cold had been reported in'the last 24 hours, had ro dvnaniite the stifTened earlh betore they could dig graves.