WINTER’S RAVAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1929, Page 5

WINTER’S RAVAGES

INTENSE COLD IN EUROPE NEARLY 50 BELOW ZERO (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received February 12, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, February 11. An ice wave, the worst since 1719, when the records were first kept, was experienced to-day in Silesia, where the temperature was forty-nine degrees below zero. Detonation at Breslau led to the discovery that a bridge over the Oder had cracked, the result of the cold. TRAVIN PASSENGERS RESCUED. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 11. The marooned people in the Simplon express were rescued and have arrived here. DANISH SUFFERINGS. COPENHAGEN, February 11. The island portion of the city is iso-' lated by ice. Food is becoming short. Many shops have closed, and transport is suspended throughout the country. 130 SHIPS ICE-BOUND. BERLIN, February 11. One hundred and thirty steamers are ice-bound in the Baltic Estuary and Elbe. Aeroplanes are supplying them with food. DUTCH CANALS FROZEN. AMSTERDAM, February 11.

The Zuider Zee is frozen, and it is possible to skate to the island of Marken. Many canals are freezing, and traffic is suspended. AUSTRIAN HORRORS. VIENNA, February 11. The temperature is minus sixteen fahrenheit, the coldest since 1775. The Danube is frozen at Vienna, and in some parts of Hungary. Fifty-four degrees frost were experienced. A nightwatchman at Vienna, returning home, found both his children frozen to death. Fifteen per cent, of the police force are invalided.