EUROPE FREEZING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23689, 22 December 1938, Page 11

EUROPE FREEZING

MANY DEATHS REPORTED PLIGHT OF REFUGEES UNTOLD SUFFERINGS. (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 20. (Received Dec. 21, at 10 p.m.) Hot-water pipes in six houses froze, causing boilers to explode, wrecking rooms. One person was killed. Many villages are isolated by a foot of snow. ■ Factories throughout France are being closed because the boilers are frozen. Eleven people were frozen to death in Rumania. With the temperature 30 degrees below zero, the coldest day for 80 years, the Danube is frozen.. Five thousand refugees huddled on No Man's Island, between Poland and Germany, are experiencing untold sufferings. Six hundred have been stricken with influenza and 10 are dead. The Lagoon at Venice is frozen. COLDEST SPELL FOR YEARS SNOW IN THE RIVIERA LONDON, Dec. 21. (Received Dec. 21, at 11 p.m.) Europe is in the grip of the coldest spell for many years, causing intense suffering and numerous deaths. Rivers and canals are frozen all over Europe, with snow even in the Riviera. Snow is falling throughout Britain, dislocating road and rail traffic. The temperature in London is 10 below freezing point, and is still dropping.

A member of the Air Force was killed when a plane landed at Shropshire and turned over on the frozen surface. A train skidded in ice on the track at Greenwich and four coaches were derailed.