COLDEST WEATHER SINCE WAR STARTED.
SOLDIERS SHIVER.
More 'Quakes And Floods In Turkey.
ROME COVERED WITH SNOW,
United Press Association. —Copyright. (Hec«"iv«l 3 p.m.) LONDON, January 18. Europe's bitter winter continues. Soldiers on the Western Front and Parisians are. shivering in the coldest weather since the outbreak of the war. Ninety degrees of frost in South Finland again paralysed major actions. An earthquake in South Anatolia fuldpfl thousand* to Turkey's homeless, while further rumbling , * in North Anatolia caused panic among the nervewrecked victims of previous 'quakes.
Rivers in West Turkey, already swollen by enow, have Hooded IS more villages and caused a landslide, demolishing two bridges.
Fierce winds are sweeping Italy. Snow covers Koine ami Vesuvius, and a 48hour snowstorm lins isolated the villas of Torrebriina, i" the Abruzzi Hills. burying it .'(Oft deep, cutting off lighting and causing tin , roofs of many homos to collate.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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