THE WEATHER IN EUROPE
THE THAMES FROZEN.
LONDON, January 4. Intensely cold weather is being experf» enced in Europe, In Austria, Belgium, and several other? parts of the Continent the temperature ia down to zero Fahrenheit. Numbers of people have been frozea . to death. Three fatalities occurred on the Alps. One of the victims was Mr FrandE? . Bergue, ■ son of Sir Henry "Bergue, head , o e the commercial department ana examiner of treaties in the Foreign Office, , who fell over a precipice." Several deaths from' cold are also re* ported from the ' English provinces. There were 19 degrees of frost at New* market yesterday, and 16 degrees at Cam» bridge. Scores of sheep have perished in th* , Swansea district. ■*-"--, January 6. The upper reaches of the Thames ara frozen over. Very severe frosta prevail over the whole" of England. Li Ireland skating is general. Twelve ice fatalities are reported, and! several more men have been frozen ttf»
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 26
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157THE WEATHER IN EUROPE Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 26
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