FROST-BOUND EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 124, 19 February 1929, Page 11

FROST-BOUND EUROPE

PARTY ATTACKED BY WOLVES RISE IN TEMPERATURE IN ENGLAND (British Official WtafiessA * Rugby, February IT. Following a slight snow during Friday night, the temperature showed an appreciable rise in the London area, and there seems promise of thaw. At 9 o’clock the mld-London temperature was 5 degrees of frost, compared with 9 at the same time the previous morning. The weather continues severe in the rest of the country, although less so in south-west and further heavy local snowfalls are reported. Although there was a rise of a few degrees in temperature, throughout Britain yesterday, to-day rigorous wintry conditions are still maintained. Skating is general all over the country, and the lakes arid ponds in London parks arid suburbs are crowded. For the .first time in the history of the Rugby League every football match had to be postponed yesterday. Icebreakers are maintaining a passage way on the Thames, but the river is completely frozen over above Oxford. There is much pack-ice on the upper raches. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) London, February 17. Thousands have been .skating, over the week-end, continuing far .into the night on ice illuminated by searchlights and motor .lamps, to the-accom-paniment of music from loudspeakers. ferocious Wolves PARTY OF RECRUITS ATTACKED. (Australian Press Association.) London, February 17. Though there have been thaws in a few isolated places, Europe, from the Baltic to the Adriatic and Black Sea, is still frost-bound. ■ < According to a Bari (Italy) message, a group of recruits for the Albanian army, accompanying a couple of gendarmes, were marching from Permedi to Kontza, when they were surrounded by fifty famishing wolves. Only the gendarmes were armed. They shot seven wolves before exhausting their ammunition. The wolves regathered and attached themselves to the party again. Some, of the recruits climbed trees. Eleven were torn to pieces. Greece’s share of Europe's terrible winter takes the form of floods. The rivers Vardar and Struma overflowed and huge areas are inundated. Cattle were drowned and many people are homeless.