COLD IN FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1917, Page 5

COLD IN FRANCE.

WHAT- OUR BOYS 27 DEGREES OF MtOSE 'M Recent letters to hand from our bfWaii at the front clearly indicate that wiE§; weather they have experienced hw toilß! bitterly qold. On one morning, not oaW*f| was there an unpleasant yellow but the temperature actually dropped 5 deg. Fahr. (27 degrees of frost) «uwl:S at one o'clock in the afternoon, «uppoM(tjj|j to he about the warmest time ol thO day, it was still only 21deg., or of frost. ' .;y}f At one poriod of the afternoon, too, there was a sort of quavering in the supply. The flame hesitated and went $ clown ominously, as if reminding the . 'i public that this source of heat cannot *'j lie relied upon indefinitely; and there were pessimistic allusion to the po»gU„ji bllity of having ti> cloie flats and officaMi and retire to hotels. i. It was impossible to bring coal bum -R up the Seine, and etten above Paris &*•/' ice began to interfere sorioualy navigation. Eight people who had bWU'.v* struck down by the cold were up in the streets. A lady of seventy flj live was found dead in her fireleu rooili"*j in the Rue d'Orsol, with a large hoard of gold in her cupboard. ~" S The cold was especially severe in the ; || centre and south-west of France. Afc'ffl Clermont-Ferrand, which is koipWtg up ■<*> Its reputation as the coldest place country, 3 deg. Fahr., was and Lyons reported an even mora menal figure, 82 deg. of frost. Marseilles was compolled to admit. existeace of temperature below freerittfew point ,