KILLED BY WOLVES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 9

KILLED BY WOLVES

Albanian Recruits Fall Prey to Savage, Famished Beasts EUROPE’S DREADFUL WINTER FAMISHED wolves, made desperate by Europe’s terrible winter, attacked a party of Albanian recruits and tore 11 of them to pieces. There is little sign of the snow and ice relaxing’ their fearful grip on the Continent(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association)

Reed. 10.50 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. THOUGH there were thaws in a few isolated places, Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic and the Black Sea is still frost-bound. A Bari message says a group of recruits to the Albanian Army were accompanying a couple of gendarmes marching to Kontza, when the party was surrounded by fifty famishing wolves. Only the gendarmes were armed. They shot seven of the wolves before exhausting their ammunition. The wolves gathered to the attack again. Some of the recruits climbed trees. Eleven were torn to pieces. Greece’s share of this terrible winter takes the form of floods. The rivers Vardar and Struma have over-

flown. Huge areas are inundated, cattle are drowned, and many people rendered homeless. Although there was a rise of a few degrees in the temperature throughout Britain yesterday and to-day, rigorous wintry conditions are still maintained. Skating is general all over the country and the lakes and ponds in the London parks and suburbs are crowded. For the first time in the history of the Rugby League, every football match had to be postponed yesterday. Ice-breakers are maintaining pass-age-way on the Thames, but the river is completely frozen over above Oxford. There is much pack-ice on the upper reaches.