STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 4

STOP PRESS NEWS

SIR SAMUEL HOARE MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND f LONDON. Feb. 15 Sir Samuel Hoare will broadcast to New Zealand and Australia at 8-45 a.m, on February 22. GALES AND BLIZZARDS MANY DEATHS IN EUROPE LONDON. Feb. 15 Continental Europe is learning the full meaninq of the word zero. Blizzards and floods in the Balkans have raised the death-roll to hundreds. The Danube remains icebound, bringing to a standstill supplies to Germany from Hungary. Budapest experienced the coldest day for sixty years with forty degrees of frost. On the great Hungarian plain it is even colder. Railway and road traffic has been suspended, and people are snowbound. The situation in Berlin is getting worse. More theatres, factories and offices are closing owing to the dearth of coal. All trains were hours late. A quarter of the population is living in heatless houses. Thousands of Jews are clearing the snow from the centre of the city. An epidemic of influenza has closed the schools In many towns to the spa district. Belgium reports the greatest cold since 1838. Ice-floes choUe the Meuse. A flotilla of ice-breakers enabled six colliers to reach Copenhagen from Kattegat. Fifteen hundred women formed a procession to Parliament and demanded food and coal. The temperature is between 27 and 36 degrees below freezing, constituting a century’a record. FOOTLOOSE SCRATCHED Footloose was scratched at 3.10 p.m. today from the President's Handicap, the. open sprint event on the first day of the Waikato Racing Club's summer programme tomorrow.