FLOODS IN TURKEY
20 PEASANTS DROWNED EIGHT FROZEN TO DEATH ANATOLIA SWEPT BY SNOW (Received January 10, 5.6 p.m.) ISTANBUL. Jan. 9 In floods in the Smyrna hinterland 20 peasants and many cattle were drowned. Boatmen rescued the inhabitants of six villages. The whole of Anatolia is snow-swept. The authorities hare organised supplies. Eight peasants were frozen to death. Packs of wolves threaten hamlets. TRAGIC WINTER VICTIMS IN RUMANIA WOLVES ENTER VILLAGES, # ■ , v LONDON. Jan. 9 Twentv-four people are known to have perished in Rumania through cold, including six youths, who were frozen to death near Constanza while on the way home, after medical examinations, which are compulsory for those approaching military age. Wolves entered many Transylvanian villages and killed animals, even in the daylight. Some villages in Bessarabia are under nine feet of snow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22933, 11 January 1938, Page 9
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