STILL SHIVERING

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 6

STILL SHIVERING

WEATHER IN EUROPE SNOW, GALES, EARTHQUAKES 86 DEGREES BELOW ZERO (United Press Assn.—Eiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 14 Europe is still shivering. Produce merchants at Jutland are employing an ice-breaker to send goods from one part of Denmark to another part, via Norway. Some motor-lorries laden with produce plunged through the _ice and disappeared, but the drivers jumped clear. Bornholm Island is threatened with isolation. It can be approached only by aeroplane. Gales with a velocity of 60 miles an hour are sweeping Northern Italy. Earthquake shocks have been recorded at Florence. Snow fell in Rome to-day. High winds at Trieste and Venice prevented navigation on the lagoons and capsized a fishing boat, two men being drowned. The railways in Hungary are virtually immobilised. Trains from Yugoslavia been banned owing to fears of snowing up. Fifteen thousand men were needed to clear the streets of Budapest of snow, in which cart horses were buried, ears deep. Twenty Jews of 3000 marooned on the Danube for a month have perished from cold. In Lithuania the lowest temperature for 160 years has been recorded. At one stage it was 86 degrees below freezing point.

STORM IN AMERICA

MANY FATAL ACCIDENTS i United Press Assn.—Elcr. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Feb. 15 The worst storm of the winter struck the eastern United States today, when sleet and snow, driven by a gale, disrupted communications and highway, aeroplane and steamship traffic, and resulted in accidents and 20 deaths. The snowfall w’as the heaviest in Ohio and West Virginia, drifts being 18ft deep.