WINTER IN EUROPE
CONDITION CAUSE PRIVATIONS. HUNGER AND DESTITUTION. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) , - LONDON, January 28. The frost maintains its grip both of Britain and the Continent, and skating prevails widely. No race meetings have been ' held since last Saturday owing to the frozen state of thf, 'ground. ' Many football matches . were postponed.' The intense cold has not had the anticpated effect of chocking- the influenza. . •' -- >'■ a-- t.
There have been many deaths from exposure in France and in Spain. Bears and boars .are leaving the forests to seek food. Wolves devoured three children in a. Constantinople district;
One thousand prisoners have been pardoned in ■Bulgaria on the occasion of .the birth of, the King's daughter, but they are bagging to; .return to gnotl in preference to their desUtuion in the present by weather. The problem of the shelterless unemployed in the city of Budapest is so aot-ue that the Hungarian Government is planning the issue of thirty, million “beggar- coins” ;-bf for payment of tlie;-coins, to be specially .redeemably in food and sleeping accommodation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 5
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177WINTER IN EUROPE Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 5
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