COLDEST FOR CENTURIES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 5

COLDEST FOR CENTURIES

EUROPE ICEBOUND

ZERO WAVE IN BRITAIN

SITII’ WRECKED AT DOVER

t Au*t. and N.Z. Cablet

London. Felt. 12

Britain is icebound. Yesterday, in London, was I lie coldest day for

20 years, the thermometer' registering 21.23 degrees fa hr., and in exposed areas down to IS degrees.

A motor coach and live saloon ears were imprisoned in snowdrifts on the Brisfc, 1 -Bridgewater road. The channel steamer Ville de Liege, from Ostend. was stranded on tlie rocks in Dover Imrbour and the passengers, including 12 women, suffered severely from a biting wind for two hours. They were huddled on the ice-holing deck till tlie crew were aide to lower the boats in tbe heavy seas. Later the Ville de Liege sank. She carried 40 passengers and 00 of a crew. All were-saved. The women wei'e pul; into tlie first boat and landed drenched and half frozen. Details of the unprecedented coldwave continue to come from all over Europe.