BLIZZARD IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

BLIZZARD IN EUROPE

Severe Gold Britain and the Continent are in the grip of intensely cold weather. London has had the heaviest frost for a decade, Paris registered 14 degrees of frost, Berlin 22 degrees, Moscow 45 degrees, and the Urals 92 degrees. The whole of eastern Jugoslavia is covered with snow. Twenty were frozen to death in the East Ukraine and many are dead in Poland. Shipping was disorganised by a blizzard in the Channel and elsewhere, and the sea water froze as' the wave broke over the vessels, A severe frost put the British Broadcasting Corporation’s London regional station out of action for three and a half hours. In Bulgaria, the blizzard interrupted communications throughout the country. The Black Sea is frozen near Constancia and 30 ships are disabled. Britain’s weather is the coldest since February, 1929, tlie temperatures varying from 20 to 27 degrees, London’s roads are icebound and trains are delayed. Race meetings have been cancelled. The, sea spray froze at many beach resorts, which resembled icefields. The King’s New Aeroplane The “Daily Herald” says the King will replace his four-seater private aeroplane with an 18-passenger de Havilland Flamingo twin-engined monoplane, which is now undergoing final trials. The machine will be capable of 250 miles an hour.