EUROPEAN WINTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1927, Page 5

EUROPEAN WINTER.

SEVERE IN BRITAIN. SNOWED-UP TRAINS. Press Association -Electric Telegr.upli-Copyr'gLfa. LONDON, Tuesday. Gangs have been working ceaselessly all day digging out snowed-up trains throughout the country. The majority of the main lines are clear, but branch lines are still considerably affected, and many trains have been cancelled. Alain roads are still impassable owing to drifts, and there is no sign of these disappearing. Consequently seor- | es of viluges are entirely isolated. No vehicle is able to enter or leave tin' ('ity of London. A number of motors caught in drifts are completely buried. Many of these went released to-day. but hundreds remain lost. Three big omnibuses are entirely lost. Jji various parts bungalows are so snowed up that only the roofs are visible. Floods are adding to the general inconvenience. The Thames, the Wey, and the .Mole Valleys are inundated, and in the neighbourhood of Chertscy, -1 miles south-west of London, the Thames is two miles wide. The Medway is twelve feet above normal, and the main London to Folkestone road is covered by three foot of swirling current in the neighbourhood of Maidstone, and along the riverside houses are awash. The worst gale known for 30 years continues in the Channel. POSTMAN DIES IN SNOW. PEOPLE FLOODED OUT. LONDON, Wed nesday. An auxiliary postman was found at Fppor Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, with his Christmas mail still strapped on his shoulders. He was evidently trying to reach an isolated farm when he fell into a snowdrift and died. A thousand people are homeless in Canterbury owing to Hoods in the river Stour. The inhabitants were without food supplies or tires until parties arrived in boats and rescued them through bedroom windows. One lady of SO years was thus lowered from a window into a cart. ON THE CONTINENT. SE RICH'S FLOODS. PARIS, Tuesday. Wild weather, accompanied by snowstorms and cyclones, continues in many northern countries. .Must serious Hoods are reported in Servia, Greece, Spain and other countries. An express train from Paris to Marseilles was derailed as a result of the Hoods, but no one was hurt. Artillery lire and bombs dropped from aeroplanes are being employed to bieak an ice jam which is damming the Danube below Bratislava, doing immense damage to shipping and wharves.