COLD IN EUROPE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 13 February 1929, Page 5

COLD IN EUROPE

WATER SUPPLIES FROZEN EPIDEMIC OP PIPES IN HOLLAND ENORMOUS LOSSES (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association) (Received 13th February, 10.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, lltli February. There is an epidemic of fires throughout Holland owing to the cold freezing water supplies. The fire brigade' was called out fifty times yesterday in Amsterdam alone. The well-known theatre Flora was burnt to the ground. The famous town hall at Leiden was burnt down and priceless archives and numerous treasures destroyed. The Brigade was helpless owing to the freezing of the water. Three other buildings were burnt at Leiden, where the damage amounts to hundreds of thousands of pounds. BRITAIN ICEBOUND

LONDON’S COLDEST DAY FOR TWENTY YEARS

LONDON, 12th February. • Britain is icebound. • Yesterday in London was tho coldest day for twenty years, the thermometer being 21 to 23 degrees Fahrenheit, and in exposed areas down to 18 degrees. A motor coach and five saloon cars are imprisoned in a snowdrift on the Bristol-Bridgewater road. 45 DEGREES BELOW ZERO RUMANIAN FAMILIES FROZEN TO DEATH (Received 13th February, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, 12th February. Messages from all parts of Europe disclose the terrible severity of the weather. Trieste had a ninety-mile freezing hurricane as the result of which 600 persons were injured. An avalanche at Innsbruck buried five smugglers. The temperature in parts of Rumania is 45 degrees below zero. Whole families have been frozen to death.