INTENSE COLD
Poor People Perish in India GREAT CROP DAMAGE Trying Ordeal For Ganges Pilgrims By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 20, 6.30 p.m.) Calcutta, January 19. Many lives have been lost and nearly £2,000,000 worth of damage caused to crops in a large area of northeastern India through an unprecedented cold wave. In Sind alone hundreds perished, including many poor people who shut themselves in huts with coal braziers and were poisoned by the fumes. In Allahabad 10.000 devout Hindus performing a pilgrimage to the sacred River Ganges are undergoing a trying ordeal by sleeping in the open with the temperature degrees below freezing and bathing in the ice-cold river each morning as part of their penance. i VANCOUVER SHIVERS Coldest Weather Within Living Memory (Received January 20, 6.20 p.m.) Vancouver, January 19. Zero weather has hit Vancouver, the coldest within living memory. Several places in the interior of British Columbia report temperatures from 50 to 60 degrees below zero.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 9
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160INTENSE COLD Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 9
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