WORST WINTER
FOR HALF A CENTURY. (United Press Association.— ElectricTelegraph .—Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 0. Reports from all over Europe indicate that this is the worst winter loi nttv years. Snow has fallen in Constantinople unceasingly for 96 hours. The normal life of the city is paralysed. The prices of necessities have risen sharply. The bakeries are continucll'besieged. -The snow is so thick that burials have !>cen abandoned and the t ..bodies are* meanwhile kept at depots. T Eight trains on the main lines to Europe are snowbound. In Poland the Government has organised one hundred and forty thousand unemployed to clear the railways, all the services being suspended. Tbc temperature has reached fifty-one degrees below zero. Many have been frozen to death. The menace of wolves is so serious in some quarters that troops lum* been sent to drive them ofF. Similar conditions exist in most of Central Europe. All the river traffic lias hecn suspended.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1929, Page 5
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