COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE
Blizzard In Straits Of Dover INCREASING TOLL OF DISEASE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received January 19, 6.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 18. A blizzard is raging in the Straits of Dover. Snow is falling and great seas are running. A message from Belgrade reports that an increasing toll of disease is accompanying the cold wave in Eastern Europe. The death roll is so high in Poland that Germans and Poles are being buried in common graves.
Blizzards continue to sweep over northern Spain. An avalanche of snow buried a bus load of passengers, but all were rescued. Thirty-six degrees Fahrenheit of frost were recorded in Denmark.
Serious epidemics of typhoid, smallpox and influenza nave broken out in Rumania and there has been a number of deaths at Braila. The Galati municipality has ordered universal vaccination as the result of widespread influenza. There are many German troops at Galati. Influenza is sweeping through Bucharest.
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Southland Times, Issue 24338, 20 January 1941, Page 5
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