THAW REVEALS MANY BURST WATER PIPES
Very Mixed Blessing LONDON REVELS IN WARM SUNSHINESKATING BOOM ENDED. Australian Press Association. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Fob. 21, After ten days’ icy conditions, Londoners to-day revelled in a temperature of 70 degrees in the sun, but to thousands it means extreme discomforture, the thawing of frozen pipes revealing hitherto undetected bursts, which flooded the houses. The thaw was responsible for a mass of ice crashing down on an ascending cago at Bestowad colliery, Nottingham. crushing the roof and killing two and injuring three miners. The warmth suddenly ended the skating boom. It has been revealed that for some days, the four Royal brothers have daily skated oa the lake in the Palace grounds.
Great Frozen Lake on Graeco-Turkish Border VILLAGES UNDER 30 FEET OF SNOW. Received Friday, 7 p.m. ATHENS, Feb. 21. Freezing, following floods, converted 150,000 acres near the Turkish border into a polar waste. Many human beings were drowned and seven villages were overwhelmed, while others lie beneath 30 feet of snow. Aeroplanes are dropping food.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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