WILD WEATHER IN EUROPE

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 60, 16 February 1940, Page 3

WILD WEATHER IN EUROPE

EARTHQUAKE IN FLORENCE DENMARK SUFFERS. COPENHAGEN, February 15. Europe is still shivering. Jutland produce merchants arc employing an ice-breaker to send goods from one part of Denmark to another part via Norway. Motor lorries laden with produce plunged through the ice and disappeared The drivers jumped clear. Bornholm Island is threatened with isolation; it can be approached only by aeroplane. Sixty-mile-an-hour gales are sweeping Northern Italy. Earthquake shocks were recorded at Florence and snow fell in Rome. The wind in Trieste and Venice prevented navigation in the lagoons and capsized Ashing boats, drowning two men. The Hungarian railways are virtually immobilised. Trains from Yugoslavia have been banneed owing to fear of their snowing up. Fifteen thousand men are needed

to clear the Budapest streets of snow, in which cart horses are buried up to the ears. A Rumanian message says that 20 Jews out of 3000 who have been marooned on the Danube for a month have died from cold,