WIDE AREA UNDER SNOW
EUROPE IN GRIP OF INTENSE COLD
MANY PERSONS FROZEN TO DEATH United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph —Copyrl - h t (Received January 10, 7.50 p.m.) ISTAMBUL, January 10. Floods in Smyrna hinterland drowned twenty peasants and many cattle. Boatmen rescued the population of six villages. The whole of is swept by snow and the authorities are organising supplies. Eight peasants have been frozen to death. Packs of wolves threaten the hamlets.
MANY DIE FROM COLD VILLAGES UNDER SNOW United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BUCHAREST, January 9. Twenty-four people are known to have perished through cold, including six youths who were frozen to death near Constanza while going home after the medical examinations which are compulsory for those approaching military age. Wolves entered many Transylvanian villages and killed animals even in daylight. Some villages in Bessarabia are under nine feet of snow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20932, 11 January 1938, Page 7
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