PANGS OF WINTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 35, 11 February 1929, Page 7

PANGS OF WINTER.

EUROPE FROSTBOUND.

Terrible Conditions Reported From Turkey. DEVASTATING COLD. (Australian auil N.Z. I'rcss Association.) I (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDOX. February 10. Practically the whole of Europe from Moscow to Constantinople i> si ill suffering the most intense void experienced for half a century. England so far has escaped the severity. Terrible conditions continue to i> J reported at Vienna by wireless from Loiistantinople, this being the only remaining nieans of communicating with the distressed city. Telephone , . telegraph and ca'.-h: services are interrupted. trains are Miowed up and >hips are prevented from leavin.LT by a frightful to'iiado. Snow \~ nine feet dee], in v on>tantinoplo Milmrli-. Troops are packs nf wolves in the environs of the city. Many (icople are homeless aud ha\e been frozen to death in the streets. OwiiiL' to the likelihood of the collaji-e of the workers, attempts to iemo\e snow from the >treo'.s have been stopped. There is a. danuer of a famin ■ and the Hour supply is limited. Most shops and all theatres are rk»ed and the street* are empty. The Orient express from Vienna on January "id U still buried in a snowdrift iii Eastern Thrace. It i- understood that the passengers still have Mifticient food and fuel. A devastating cold is widespread throughout Kurope. Ice has compelled the closing of the Kiel Canal. lee on the (Jreat Lakes at Berlin is Ift liin in thickness. All Khip|>in<{ on the Hhine has been suspended for a fortnight. Wild deer are venturing to the towns in search of food. i Places nearly 1000 miles south of London have lower temperatures than l-n«land'-. Marseilles is live helo%v fieezinjr point, while areas between the Haltic and the Black Sea vary between ")0 and 70 decrees of frost. Itcports from Moscow describe appalling conditions, statini: that the mercury has ceased to register. Since tintemperature of certain districts has fallen r>B below zero schools have been ciosed. Buses are prevented from running «>winjr to the inipo*>ihility of startinjr the engines. Milk is free/in*: and burst injr the can*, while the entire food siip[>ly i> disor i «ani'-ed.