AMERICA HIT BY ICY BUST.
ISLAND INHABITANTS FACE STARVATION.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Monday, 9.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. An intense cold wave along the Atlantic seaboard and extending into the mid-west has now lasted 14 consecutive days with the weather below freezing point. In addition there has been an unusually heavy quota of accidents and deaths from cold. The food and coal situation has become acute in many districts. Fifteen hundred inhabitants on a small island named Tangier, in Chesapeake Bay, near Washington, are actually in danger of starvation as they are completely icebound. A small dirigible managed to fly over and drop half a ton of supplies, but this was completely inadequate. Coastguard cutters are attempting to break through. New York harbour is becoming increasingly filled with ice and only by continually employing tugs as breakers are the ferry and ship lanes kept open. Traffic on other harbours is likewise menaced.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 February 1936, Page 8
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