INTENSE COLD
PRIVATIONS IN EUROPE. LONDON, Dec. 31. The Balkans are facing the coldest winter for 20 years. Messages reaching Ankara from Bucharest report that the number of civilians dying from cold is mounting steadily.- A heavy blizzard is raging across South-Eastern Europe and thousands are expected to perish because of the food shortage. Hordes of maimed soldiers arriving in the Balkans from the Russian front are suffering acutely from frostbite. The heavy snows are disrupting rail traffic throughout Turkey. Twenty-nine degrees of frost have been registered Jn Aragon (Spain). Heavy snowfalls ""are hindering communications. Heavy snowstorms are raging in Southern Thrace. Twentyfive peasants were found frozen to death in a field.. The Vichy News Agency reports a heavy fall of snow in Rome for the third Christmas in succession. This | has never happened previously in livI ing memory.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 28, 2 January 1942, Page 2
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139INTENSE COLD Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 28, 2 January 1942, Page 2
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