GOLD SNAP IN EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20172, 5 February 1929, Page 9

GOLD SNAP IN EUROPE.

iWOBST SINCE 1871.

DANUBE FROZEN OVER.

BELOW ZERO AT BRESLAU.

WHOLE OF ITALY FROZEN.

SNOW COVERS VESUVIUS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht. .Australian Press Association—United Service. (Received February 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail says tho week-end was tho coldest experienced in Central Europe since the winter of tho Franco-Prussian War (1871). There was a record cold wave in Czecho-Slovakia, where 66 degrees of frost were registered. The River Danube was completely frozen over in some places. There were 53 degrees of frost in Berlin and lower temperatures still in the provinces. At Breslau the temperature was 25 degrees below zero. At Danzig tho harbour is blocked with ice. Shipping is impeded at Hamburg end icc-brcakcrs are most active in the Baltic. Snow fell heavily right throughout Italy. Earlier messages received in London 6tatod: — Exceptionally severe weather prevails in Southern Europe. Tho whole of Italy is frozen and oven Mount Vesuvius is covered with a mantle of snow. The long frost is causing intense distress in Turkey. Famished wolves have appeared on tho outskirts of Constantinople, close to the city. Three express trains on the Simplon route are snowbound.