VENICE ICE-BOUND
SKATES USED INSTEAD OF GONDOLAS COLDEST FOR 58 YEARS | (United P.A. — By Telegraph—Copyrightj (Australian and A '.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON. Monday. A rare spectacle is presented at Venice, according to a message from Rome. The lagoon is completely frozen over. Gondolas and other craft are ice-bound, and people are skating everywhere. Ships are unable to break through. Snow fell heavily right throughout Italy. The Vienna correspondent of the ‘•'Daily Mail” says the week-end was the coldest experienced in Central Europe since the winter of the FrancoPrussian War tISTI). There was a record cold wave iu Czecho-Slovakia, where 66 degrees of frost were registered. The River Danube was completely frozen over in some places. There were 33 degrees of frost in Berlin and lower temperatures still in the provinces. At Breslau the temperature was 25 degrees below zero. At Danzig the harbour is blocked with ice. Shipping is impeded at Hamburg and ice-breakers are most active in the Baltic.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 9
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