Several Villages Cut Off More Casualties
Reeeived Monday, 11.40 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 22 Bulldozers. and snow ploughs are being used in an intensified battle against mounting snqwdrifts as, high as 10 feet, whieh have aheady cut off seyeral villages and threaten to disrupt transport across, the whole of south England, The blizzard raged all night and two more days of snow are pre-. dicted. Casualties have increased. A driver was killed when his furniture van overturned in Leicestershire. The temperature was 15. degiee Eahrenheit in parts of south England. The Ministry of Transport, using aviation forecasting stations, was flashing weather warnings to railway stations. With snowfalls up to twelve inches- during the night, road conditions have grown stead- : ily worse. ' The blizzard buried snow ploughs near- East Dean, Sussex. The roads over much of south-east England are particularly darigerous for light traffic. Many roads in Kent, Sussex and Derbyshire have teen blocked and many- trains are running late.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 February 1948, Page 5
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