BLIZZARD IN BRITAIN.
STILL RAGING. London, December 20. A fierce Wizzard continues to rage is various warts of. Great Britain, TRAFFIC BLOCKED. REMOVING.THE SNOW; A GREAT TASK. RAILWAY SERVICES DISLOCATED. SEVERAL PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH. Received 30, 11.5 p.m. Th<|p||pM | tt s «HMf-nCopped the $&' a QQL."~ traffic in Loudon. The cfflntnjijjual traffic and slioM>inir were almost at a standstill. Rubber-tyred motor omnibuses proved extremely useful. Twenty thousand unemployed are engaged in removing the snow, but the ofiicials state it will lake a week to remove tbe amount that has already fallen. ■ '
Exceptionally severe storms in the provinces dislocated the railway service, snowing up a train and burying flocks of sheep. There is a general stoppage of work. Saveral people have been frozen to (loath. • ,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 312, 31 December 1908, Page 2
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124BLIZZARD IN BRITAIN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 312, 31 December 1908, Page 2
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