VIOLENT STORMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 2

VIOLENT STORMS.

ENGLAND SNOWBOUND

BELGRADE STREETS ICE-COVERED.

BELGRADE, January 1-5.

The capital is telephoncially and telegraphically isolated, due to a storm of exceptional violence sweeping the country last night. There have been many accidents owing to the ice-covered streets, and railway traffic is delayed through telegraph poles falling across the lines.

The masts of the Bagnit.za radio station were blown down. Considerable damage was done to the wharves along the river Save, the pontoons and landing stages being carried away.

DAMAGE IN FRANCE. PARTS, January 16. A number of deaths are reported as the result of the severe weather. Snow is falling in many districts. It is heaviest in the south. Alany fields of Ilowers in the Aloes Afaritimes have been ruined. Snow lias fallen in Ventimiglia and Liguria for the first time in. living memory. The damage to the flower crop in this region is estimated at several million francs. Snow is even falling in Corsica. Much damage has been done along the Freenh coast. Several wrecks are reported. LONDON’S SLIPPERY STREETS. LONDON. January 17. It is many years since so much snow has fallen in London. There were further heavy falls last night and early this morning throughout England and parts of Scotland, but the thermometer is not unduly low. Traffic is considerably - interrupted owing to the formation of drifts and the slippery streets. Railway lines and electric services running in the open air are most particularly affected. Thousands of unemployed have found work clearing London streets of snow. Hunting and racing is generally stopped. The Air Ministry forecasts a further fall. LONDON, January 17.

The whole of Hie country is snowbound. There are winter sports everywhere. but these arc practised amateurishly. Two boys sledging down a snow-clad hill fell underenath the wheels of a. passing motor lorry and were killed. COLD SNAP IN SPAIN. MADRID, January 15. An Arctic wave prevails in Spain. The temperature at Seville is three degrees below zero, with heavy snowfalls in the north and north-east, including Valencia. Train services are carried on under most difficult conditions. A hurricane is raging on the Catalonian Coast. Several vessels broke their moorings and battered against the quays and many fishing" boats were destroyed near Barcelona.