BLIZZARDS IN EUROPE.
RECORD COLD IN BALKANS. MANY DEATHS! IN GERMANY. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, J arm airy 14. Europe is suffering severe, cold, with blizzards reaching 132 miles an hour and temperatures reaching 74 degrees below freezing point. A blizzard swept the Balkan Peninsula for two days and immobilised transport. It broke records for low temperatures. The fate of five snowed-up trains is still not known. The temperature is 64 degrees below freezing point in Bessarabia, where there are pitiful scenes. Many people were frozen to death, while others were made homeless through setting fire to their houses by overheating stoves. * The railways are srunning skeleton services, though oil trains, particularly those to Germany, continue to run. Frozen brakes caused one train to ge/t out of control, killing four persons. The cold ir Germany caused many deaths. The coal shortage continues as the temperatures touch 41 degrees below freezing point. Four thousand civil servants returned home, being too cofil to work. Other departments worked only two hours.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 81, 16 January 1940, Page 8
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