COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26025, 31 January 1950, Page 5

COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE

®ec. 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 30. All ef Western Europe is in the grip of a cold wave, with snowstorms and gales. Most capitals have reported temperatures below freezing point

Seventeen Norwegian fishermen are feared to be dead as a result of a nurricane which swept over their fishing fleet off northern Norway. Snow and rainstorms, with gales *eacmng 75 miles an hour, swept across Italy in the last 24 hours. Three Persons were killed and much damage caused.

Snow began falling in Scotland and {he north of England to-day. Conunumg cold and snow showers are forecast for the rest of Britain.

SNOW ELECTRIFIED BY FALLEN CABLE Man KILLED, TEN INJURED ®«. 9 p.m.) ROME. January 30. 1 5i? etric shock transmitted by killed Mario Fanan, aged 40, near *®nice, and seriously injured 10 other Persons. Snowstorms had torn down a high tension cable which fell to the ground varf electr ified hundreds of square 7«ras of snow. A house was set ablaze short circuit. All the fuses in 80 other houses were blown. ranan stepped on to the snow from ms doorstep to see what had occurred, ana was killed by an electric shock. GREEK CIVIL WAR government report OF CASUALTIES <Rec. 7 p.m.) ATHENS, January 29. - n ? reel< Government forces had killed Communist guerrillas in the last mont hs. said the Greek General htaff weekly newspaper, “Military News,” to-day. In that period 2300 guerrillas surrendered or were captured. The Army casualties were 286 dead, 849 wounded, and 34 missing. . *he journal placed the total remaining guerrilla strength in Greece at ‘W, mostly in northern Greece.