SEVERE WINTER
EXPERIENCED IN EUROPE COLDEST FOR MANY YEARS. SUFFERINGS OF CIVILIANS & SOLDIERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 31. The Balkans are facing the coldest winter for 20 years. Messages reaching Ankara from Bucharest report that the number of civilians dying from cold is mounting steadily. A heavy blizzard is raging across south-eastern Europe, and thousands are expected to perish because of the food shortage. Hordes of maimed soldiers arriving in the Balkans from the Russian front are suffering acutely from frostbite. The heavy snows are disrupting rail traffic throughout Turkey. Twenty-nine degrees of frost have been registered in Aragon, Spain. Heavy snowfalls are hindering communications. Heavy snowstorms are raging in southern Thrace. Twenty-five peasants were found frozen to death in a field. The Vichy news agency reports a heavy fall of snow in Rome lor the third Christmas in succession. This has never happened previously in living memory. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1942, Page 3
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