TRENTINO BLIZZARDS.
WHY THT& ALPINI LIVE IN TENTS The weather is piercingly.-' cold, with violent blizzards on the Trentino front. The frost is so intense that the water m the .-radiators ,of the automobiles and motor lorries is frequently frozen, and these vehicles, m Jong) lines, remain half-buried m the snow/ for hours during the night. Buckets of. boiling waterj are used to melt the water m ihe radiators. The Alpine troops refused to build wooden huts as better protection from the cold,, and are remaining m their tents, declaring) that as the Attstrians have fine wooden huts with electric lights and heating apparatus they will go and take them;
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19170113.2.15.39
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14196, 13 January 1917, Page 3
Word Count
110TRENTINO BLIZZARDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14196, 13 January 1917, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.