TERRORS OF WINTER.
SUFFERING IN EUROPE
PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH
EXCESSIVE FALL OF SNOW
CONDITIONS IN CITIES.
NORMAL LIFE PARALYSED
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian Press Association—United Service (Received February 6, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 6. The worst winter experienced for 50 years is indicated in reports to hand from all parts.
Snow has fallen in Constantinople, without ceasing, for 96 hours. The normal life of that city is paralysed. The prices of necessities have nsen sharply. The bakeries are continually besieged. Snow is so thick upon the ground that burials have had to .be abandoned and bodies aro being kept at depots.
Eight trains on tho main lines in Europe are snowbound.
In Poland the Government has organised 140,000 unemployed men and is employing them to clear (ho railway lines All the train services have been suspended.
The temperature in some places has reached 51 degrees below zero. Many people have been frozen to death. The menace of starving wolves is so serious in some quarters that troops have been sent to drive them off.
Similar conditions exist in most parts of Central Europe. All traffic on rivers has been suspended.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 9
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