WINTER’S ICY BLAST
THE CONTINENT GRIPPED MILES OF CANALS FROZEN. LONDON, December 14. (Received Dec. 14, at 9 p.m.) Reports of intense cold have been received from all parts of the Continent. In Venice there were 18 inches of enow, Trieste experienced a blizzard, and in Poland several people were frozen to death. In Switzerland snow is falling heavily. In northern France hundreds of miles of canals are frozen. In Vienna a cake at a wedding party was broken with an axe and the guests thawed portions by the fire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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90WINTER’S ICY BLAST Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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