COLD SNAP IN EUROPE,
THERMOMETER AT ZERO IN
SEVERAL PLACES,
THREE FATALITIES IN THE
ALPS
NUMBERS OF PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH.
Jnited Press Association—Copyrignt (Received January 5, 4.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 4. Intensely cold weather is being experienced in Europe. In Austria, Belgium and several other parts of the Continent tho thermometer is down to zero Fahrenheit. Numbers have been frozen to death. 'l'hroe fatalities occurred in the Alps, one of the victims being Mr. Francis Borgne, son of Sir Henry Borgne, head of tho Commercial Department and Examiner of Treaties m the Foreign Office, who fell over a precipice.
Several deaths from cold are reported from the English provinces. Xintcen degrees of frost were registered at Newmarket yesterday, aud ixtet ii degrees at Cambridge. Scores d; sheep perished in the Swansea district.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2081, 6 January 1908, Page 2
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