EUROPE’S SEVERE WINTER
SEA MINEFIELDS FROZEN
[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN.—-COPYBIGHT.]
LONDON, February 9.
“Pedestrians are forbidd'en to enter the 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 GermanyThree principal minefields lie off Copenhagen- and the channels off the Little and Great Belts.
Shipping authorities 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. The Rhine is a chief source of danger. The continued shortage' of coal in Germany has led to new decrees. Rentals have been compulsorily reduced if they normally included heating. Denmark and Norway have only half the normal supply of fuel. Schools and churches remain closed. Even hot baths are rationed, and the running of hot water is..prohibited. .. Army and Air Force abroad except lor the present, those serving in Caii-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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