IN ICY GRIP.

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1929, Page 5

IN ICY GRIP.

EUROPE’S SNAP. Worst for Over Century. (Australian & M.Z. Cable Assn.) 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 degrees below zero. A detonation at Breslau led to the discovery that a bridge over the Oder River had cracked, the result of the cold. BRITAIN ICEBOUND. COLDEST FOR 20 YEARS IN LONDON. LONDON, February 12. Britain is now icebound. Yesterday in London was the coldest day experienced for twenty years, thermometer fell to 21,23 degrees Fahrenheit. In the exposed areas it wm down to 18 degrees. A mo or coach and five saloon ears are imprisoned in a snowdrift on the Bristol-Bridgewater road. A WRECK AT DOVER. LONDON February 12. The Channel .steamer Ville de Liege, from Ostend, is stranded on the rocks of Dover Harbour. The passengers, including twelve women. suffered severely from the biting wind. For two hours they were huddled on the ice-bound deck,’ till the crew were able to lower boa s in the heavy seas. A later message states the Ville de Liege sank. She carried forty passengers and sixty of a crew. All were saved. The women were put into the first boat, and were landed drenched and half frozen.

130 SHIPS ICEBOUND. 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. L AMSTERDAM, February 11. dpbnio Zuider Zee is frozen, and it U ▼possible to skate to the (island of Marken. Many eanals are freezing, and traffic is suspended. DUTCH CAPITAL ISOLATED. COPENHAGEN, February 11. The island portion of the city is isolated by ice. Food .is becoming short. Many shops have closed, and transport 'is throughout the country. AUSTRIA’S RECORD COLD.VIENNA, February 11. The temperature is minus sixteen fahrenheit, the sinee 1775. The Danube is frozen at Vienna, and in some parts of Hungary. Fifty-four .legfees of frost were experienced. A nightwatchman at Vienna, returning home. found both his children frozen to death. Fifteen per eent. of the police force are invalided. TRAIN PASSENGERS RESCUED. February 11. marooned people in the Simplon * express were rescued, and have arrived here.