CONDITION IN EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 7

CONDITION IN EUROPE.

Iceland And Spitsbergen Warmer Than London.

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LONDON, February 14

Reports from various parts of Europe show that there is no abatement «/ the abnormal winter conditions.

A message from Paris says, the state of the weather verifies in a remarkable fashion a prediction made by Abbe Moreux, the famous director of the Bourges Observatory, in January, 1928.

-'■ He then prophesied that the River Thamefe would be frozen in the winter of 1929, and that Western Europe would experience conditions somewhat akin to those of the ice-age.

An unusual feature in connection with the ice' visitation in Europe is that in Iceland the temperature is 17deg. warmer than in London, and at Spitz - hergen it is lOdeg. warmer.

Messages from Rome report heavy snowstorms in Northern and Central Italy and a widespread interruption of trains. The snow in several towns is three feet deep. Avalanches have fallen in the province of Ancona and snow 20ft deep is blocking the railway. Snow » falling in Rome.

In Germany the River Elbe is frozen over from Dresden to Hamburg. More than 30- degrees of frost were registered in western, southern and central Germany.

Aeroplanes are employed in carrying food an'd' spirits to ice-bound ships on the Baltic Sea. Fog is adding to the difficulties of the situation at Prague.

The sentries in the British Army on the Rhine have had pullovers and sheepskin coats issued to them.

. In Paris the director of State pawnihops has ordered all eiderdowns, blanket* and woollen shawls to be restored gratis to those who pledged them. The River Seine is almost blocked w «th ice above Montereau. The River Marne is frozen and aJI the rivers as fairest as Cherbourg are becoming icenound.

At Budapest, Hungary, 10,000 people scrambled for free coal distributed by the Government to relieve firelese householders. Fifty of them collapsed and were sent to hospital with frozen hands, lars or feet.

A message from Berlin states that i party of eight sot out from Lindau to walk across the frozen Lake Constance. When in the middle of the lake they jouncl that they were on a floating ice n°e. Their distress signals were not observed till dawn when three had died from exposure and the others were terribly frostbitten.