APPALLING CONDITIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16874, 11 February 1929, Page 11

APPALLING CONDITIONS

EUROPE UNDER SNOW MANY FREEZE TO DEATH ALL TRANSPORT HELD UP. (Elee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and is'.//. Press Association.) (Received Feb. 11, 3 p.m.) I.OMH.'n.' Feb. 10. The whole of Europe from .Moscow to Constantinople is still suffering from the in tensest cold for hnl'.f a century. England thus far has escaped the severity of the terrible conditions which continue elsewhere. A wireless message received in Vienna front Constantinople, win-h is the only remaining means of communication, states that in some districts city tele phono and telegraph cables are interrupted, trains snowed up. and ships pre vented from leaving by n frightful tornado, The snow is 9ft deep in Constantinople and its suburbs.

Troops are dispersing packs of wolves in the environs. Many of the homeless have been frozen to death in tho streets. Owing to the likelihood of the collapse of wor*"?rs' attempts to remove snow from tho streets traffic has been stopped. There is danger of it famine as the flour supplv is limited. Most of tho shops and all theatres are. closed, and the streets are empty. The Orient express from Vienna is still buried in a snow drift east of Thrace, li is understood that the passengers still have sufficient food and fuel. Devastating cold is widespread in Europe. he compelled Ihe closing of the Kiel Can a*. The ice on the Great Lakes of 'tierlin is 18in in thickness, and all shipping on the Rhine has been sus pended For a fortnight. Wild dee;' are venturing into towns in search of food. At phios nearly 1000 miles south of London lower temperatures are experienced than in England. Al Marseilles il is five degrees below freezing point. (n areas between the Raltic and i' l " ninek Sea. (he-re is between 50 and 70 degrees of frost. lienor,- from Moscow describe nppallmg conditions. The mercury ceased to register sin -e Ihe temperature in certain distiicts has fallen to 58 dc'reej below m . n . Schools are closed, and louses have been prevented from running '-win-; to :lm impossibility of starling Ihe engines. Milk is freezing and hurstint; cans, and I lie fond supply is disorganised.