MANY HUNDREDS HURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 11

MANY HUNDREDS HURT

Slipped on London Ice GREEK SENTRIES DIE OF COLD By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.45 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. THERE were extraordinary scenes in London and suburban streets, when a rapid thaw, followed by a resumption of the frost, turned the streets into skating rinks. Thousands of workers slithered. Casualties were numerous and hundreds of cases were treated in seven hospitals. Road and railway traffic is chaotic.

The bitterly cold weather continues to be the topic of conversation throughout Europe. There have been several deaths of shepherds and Heavy snowstorms have occurred on tramps in England owing to the cold, the east coast of Scotland. Dublin is snow-bound. The heaviest snowstorms for many years have been experienced at Limerick and elsewhere.

to the cold. Twelve of the deaths have occurred in Paris. Seventeen Green sentries were frozen to death while they were guarding the railway from Ghevaeli to Demirkapu, which is the route the British troops from Salonika followed in war time. Three other guards were taken to hospital and are not expected to recover.

The cold in Germany is intense. The trains everywhere are delayed by frozen signals. The temperature at Breslau is 52 degrees below freezing point and the lowest since 1799. Cargo vessels on the River Danube have been stopped by the ice.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.

In Paris the gendarmes leave their points of duty and return to the police stations once an hour to recover from the effects of exposure. There have been 33 deaths in France owing