CHILDREN'S FATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 36, 12 February 1929, Page 7

CHILDREN'S FATE.

FROZEN TO DEATH.

Father's Gruesome Find In

Vienna Home.

WINTER'S PERISHING GRIP,

(Australian and X.Z. Press Association.) (Received 11.CO a.m.) LOXDOX, February 11. The Zuider Zee is frozen and it is possible to skate to the island of .Harken. Many canals are freezing and traffic is suspended. At Vienna the temperature is minus sixteen Fahrenheit, the coldest since 1770. The Danube is. frozen at Vienna.

In some parts of Hungary there are 54 degrees of frost. A night watchman at Vienna, returning home, found both

his children frozen to death. Fifteen per cent of the police force are off duty through illness.

A Berlin message states that 130 steamers are icebound in the Baltic and the estuary of the Kibe, and aeroplanes are supplying them with food.

WORST SINCE 1719.

Ice-Wave Sweeps Over Country Of Silesia. COLD CRACKS BRIDGE. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Ueceived 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, February 11. An ice-wave, the worst since 1719, vyhen records were first kept, swept to-day over Silesia, when the temperature was 40 degrees below zero. A detonation near Breslau led to the discovery that the bridge over the River Oder was cracked as a result of the cold.

A Constantinople message state? that the marooned people in the Siniplon express were rescued and arrived at the city.

At Copenhagen the island portion of the city is isolated by ice. Food is shortening, many shops have closed and transport is suspended throughout the country.