{"id":3386,"date":"2021-09-01T02:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2021-09-01T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:27:13","slug":"a-new-ice-age-in-europe-13-feb-1940-a-great-ice-claw-stretching-from-the-arctic-to-the-black-sea-and-westward-to-holland-is-again-clutching-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"A NEW ICE \u2018AGE\u2019 IN EUROPE 13 Feb 1940. A great ice claw stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea and westward to Holland is again clutching Europe. Germany is suffering acutely. A serious influenza epidemic has broken out in Berlin. The ground is too hard for burials, and the mortuaries are crammed with bodies awaiting the thaw.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A NEW ICE “AGE” IN EUROPE (1940, February 13). The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 8. Retrieved September 1, 2021, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/167524499?searchTerm=new%20ice%20age%20coming&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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LONDON, Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A great ice<\/span> claw stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea -and westward to Holland is again clutching Europe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It has already caused hundreds of deaths, spread epidemic of influenza among thousands, immobilised sea and land transport and intensified the food and fuel shortage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Experts predict that conditions may become worse than last month.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A violent snow-storm combined with a heavy gale swept the ice <\/span>bound Kattegat, heralding new <\/span>suffering for Northern Europe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Temperatures in Denmark are the lowest since 1895. Two Danish Ice-breakers<\/span> were trapped while endeavoring to free 12 ships which were carrying urgently-needed coal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Twenty-five Swedish tourists laden with luggage skated from Sweden to Denmark across the sound, which was frozen for the first time in 700 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Danish Government has forbidden householders to use hot water. The King personally turned off the hot water system in the palace as an example to the nation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Scores of people have fainted from cold in the streets of Copenhagen, and others were taken to hospital suffering from frostbite.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Germany is suffering acutely.<\/div>\n
A serious influenza epidemic has broken out in Berlin. The ground is too hard for burials, and the mortuaries are crammed with bodies awaiting the thaw.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The shortage of vegetables is serious. Dynamite has been employed to blow potatoes from the frozen earth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Thousands of deer, sheep and wild game have been frozen to death. Rail and road chaos has increased, and communications with Denmark are cut off.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Norway\u2019s winter is the severest for 60 years. Fifty ships, eight of which have cargoes of coal, are ice-bound<\/span> in outlying ports.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hot water in flats and public and private buildings is permitted only once in every three weeks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Schools in small towns are closed, electricity is restricted, and several mills have closed down.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Holland is enduring the bitterest weather in her history. The Waal River is a foot higher than it has ever been before and its menace becomes more serious every hour.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Riverside inhabitants are being evacuated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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South-eastern Europe is held in snow and ice.<\/span> Vast tracts formerly flooded in winter are frozen hard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fifteen people have died in Yugoslavia and eight have been frozen to death to Hungary.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In Montenegro. Bosnia and Southern Yugoslavia scores of motor cars and other vehicles have been abandoned in snow drifts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Packs of wolves are marauding on the Hungary-Russian frontier.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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