INTENSE COLD IN EUROPE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1929, Page 3

INTENSE COLD IN EUROPE

SEVERE HARDSHIPS ENCOUNTERED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. V\ ill-! whole of Europe from Moscow to Coi stantinople is still suffering ,• (m fi’o most intense cold for half a criLuy. England, thus far, has <3:nnod the severity. Terrible conditions < intitule A wireless message received in Vienna from Constantinople, which is tbe only remaining means of communication, states in tbe distressed city telephone and telegraph cables are interrupted. Trains are showed up and ships are prevented from, leaving by a fright!ul tornado. Tbe snow is nine feet deep in Constantinople and suburbs. Troops are dispersing packs of wolves in tbe environs. Many of the homeless have been frozen to death in tbe streets. Owing to the likelihood of the collapse of the workers, attempts to remove snow from the streets have been stopped. There is a danger of famine, as the Hour supply is limited. Most of the shops and nil theatres are closed, and the streets are empty. The Orient express from Vienna is still buried in a snow drift east of Thrace. It is understood the passengers still have sufficient food and fuel. | Devastating cold is widespread in Europe. Ice compelled the closing of the Kiel canal. ice on the Great Lakes in Berlin is eighteen inches in thickness, and all shipping on the Rhine is suspended lor a fortnight. | Wild wolves are venturing into the town in search of food. ! At places neaTly a thousand miles south of London lower temperatures are 1 experienced than in England. At Marseilles it is five degrees below freezing‘point. In areas between the Baltic, and the Bleak Sea there is between 50 and 70 degrees of frost. Reports from Moscow describes appalling conditions. The. mercury has ceased to register,. since tho temperature in certain districts has fallen to 58 below zero. ! Schools are closed and buses have been prevented from running owing to tbe impossibility of starting the enr j gines. j Milk is freezing and bursting the ; cans. The food supply is disorganised. J