COLD WAVE
LONDON, February 4.
The cold now experienced in England is the most intense for 17 years. Zero was registered in Norfolk. The roads in the Midlands,, are impassable, the schools closed, and the telegraph lines interrupted.
February 5.
Yesterday the weather was the coldest experienced for 45 years. The temperature was four degrees below zero at Ijondon, and there were heavy snowstorms in the South of England. ST. PETERSBURG, February 4.
Eighteen persons were frozen to death and 30 buried in the snow in the leihur district. , -
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Otago Witness, Issue 3021, 7 February 1912, Page 25
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89COLD WAVE Otago Witness, Issue 3021, 7 February 1912, Page 25
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