CHAOTIC CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER EUROPE
Received Friday, 7.50 p.m. j OaDUX, Feb. 14. The freezing weather, combined wiOi the eoal shortage, has brought a good part of industrial Furope to a halt, says tlie Associated l'ress in a round-up of rejiorts from tiie Cuntineiit 's capital eities. Low slocks of fuel i'oreed a blackout iu Amsterdam. Czei-hoslovakia caiue near a crisis when deep drifts of snow closed railway arteries. The Belgian Government announeed that the deiivery of the mouth's domestie coal ration was not possible till the end of February. German and Austrian industry is almost conipletely shut down. Berlin electricity otiicial- said power stations wliich had been rationing power between districts since Becember, now liave almost no coal. llaini)iirg power stations were able to snpply electricity for only two hours daily and the city's situation was describcil as catast rophie. The British Control Coninffssion iu the Kulir warncd that continuous frost s had doue so mucli damage that uearly all autumn-plantefl crops were spoiled and will 'liave to l>e replauted iu tio spring.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 February 1947, Page 5
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