THE NEW ICE AGE. EUROPE FREEZES, 18 Feb 1929. The Seine is freezing in earnest, and the ice has stopped water-borne traffic to Paris, where fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable.
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NO BREAK IN COLD.
GREAT HARDSHIPS.
NO IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
LONDON, February 15.
The cold is tightening its paralysis grip on Europe. Industrial life in Czeche Slovakia is almost at a stand still. Railways are accepting only in dispensable goods, and the smaller factories are closing owing to the scarcity of fuel.
Bratislava and other towns are isolated. Soldiers are clearing the snow blocked roads and railways. Prices of fuel and foodstuffs at Belgrade have doubled, necessitating anti profiteering regulations.
The Seine is freezing in earnest, and the ice has stopped water-borne traffic to Paris, where fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable.
Fish, meat, dairy produce and coal are scarce. The Somme is frozen at Peronne. The cold has caused many sudden deaths throughout France, including an aged man who hanged himself to end his privation.
LONDON, February 16
The official weather forecast hints that whenever the frost is going to stop, the cold will continue, but the temperature will lend to rise slowly. A general thaw, however, is not expected before next week, and snow is predicted meanwhile.
The ice is claiming more and more of the river streams.
Already blocks of ice are floating on the river at Richmond, only a few miles from Westminster. It is not, however, expected that the tidal waters of the river west of London will be frozen over, as they have been on previous occasions. Since that time, when fairs were held on the ice on the river embankments have been built, which increase the flow of the river.