FROZEN MINEFIELDS
BLOCKADE BY ICE
WARNING TO PEDESTRIANS
LONDON, February 9,
I "Pedestrians are forbidden to enter minefields," reads a notice posted far from the shore off Copenhagen, because people have been walking across the frozen sea between Denmark and Sweden towards Germany. Three principal minefields lie off Copenhagen and the nearby channels. Shippers fear that the worst ice blockade for a century will completely isolate Denmark.
Northern Europe is still largely under snow and ice. Holland is acutely anxious about huge masses of ice drifting down the rivers of which the Rhine is the chief source of danger.
The continued shortage of coal in Germany has led to new decrees that rentals must be compulsorily reduced if they normally include heating. Denmark and Norway have only half their normal supply of fuel. Schools and churches remain closed and even hot baths have been rationed. Running hot water is prohibited.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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