IN ICY GRIP

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1935, Page 7

IN ICY GRIP

LANDS OF NORTH INTENSE COLD WAVE FROM CANADA TO INDIA TWO RAILWAY SMASHES DAMAGE DONE IN BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11 p.m. London, Jan. 28. The wave of intense cold that swept over North America has encircled almost the whole northern hemisphere. Britain is suffering a continuation of the fierce storm of the last two days and the cold has gripped most Continental countries. Even India is affected by the freezing conditions. More snow has fallen throughout Britain and hundreds of people are skiing and tobogganing on the outskirts of London. Coastal shipping has been brought to a standstill by the gales. Traffic has slowed on the icebound roads, and cars have been abandoned. Telephone and electric lines and trees are down in the country. Paris is all white, and 4500 persons are engaged in clearing the streets of snow. In Yugoslavia railways are blocked. One goods train crashed into a ravine, while an avalanche fell on another. In Montenegro towns are isolated and newspapers have not been distributed. A British trawler’s bridge and funnel were swept away and the mate lost overboard. Natives are frozen to death in the jungle near Karachi, 20 are dead at Lahore and many are clustering round fires in the Bombay streets. Calcutta reports that animals in Bengal have driven into the cultivated areas herds of as many as 200 elephants.

Heavy seas continued on the British coasts at the week-end, causing damage to shipping. Several trawlers and other small vessels were driven, ashore. Lifeboatmen are on duty in many districts. The Clacton and Walton lifeboats were battling for 12 hours in heavy seas in the Channel to save a disabled sailing barge. LITTLE IMPROVEMENT FLOODS IN EAST CANADA DAY’S DEATHS NUMBER 17 By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.5 p.m. Vancouver, Jan. 27. Flood conditions in the lowlands east of Vancouver were little improved on Sunday. Hundreds of small farm homes are inundated and the occupants have had to be rescued in small boats. No railway trains have moved from eastern Canada towards Vancouver. Deaths on the seventh day of the storm numbered 17. Aeroplanes are dropping food, supplies at inaccessible points.