COLD WAVE PERSISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24826, 28 January 1942, Page 5

COLD WAVE PERSISTS

WIDESPREAD SNOWFALLS LONDON, Jan. 26. Intense cold is continuing throughout Europe with cold northerly gales and snowfalls in the Straits of Dover. The temperature is below zero. Several people died in Denmark as the result of the most intense cold this century. The temperature in Sweden rose today, but a return to more Intense cold is predicted. Four hundred cases pf frostbite were sent to hospital in Stockholm over the week-end. when the temperature was 29dcg. below zero (Fahrenheit). There is the most intense cold for 67 years in Sweden. Snowdrifts dislocated road and train traffic and stopped church services and sports. Helsinki had a temperature of 26deg. below zero (Fahrenheit). The tram service was suspended. Owing to an abnormal drought and cold the level of the Swiss lakes and rivers is the lowest for more than a century. For the first time in two centuries the Rhine is frozen between Schaffhausen and Rheinfeiden. Water reserves for electricity are dwindling and a 50 per cent, cut in power has been ordered. Similar conditions in unoccupied France are compelling factories to close. There is severe cold in Turkey. Snowfalls and blizzards make communications difficult in Anatolia.