Two Feet of Ice in Canterbury: Food Supplies Cut Off in Many Cases London, Dee. 29, Arctic conditions of extraordinary, severity have transformed Britain into a frozen desert. Heavy snowfalls have blocked roads, isolated towns and villages, interrupted telegraphs and telephones, swallowed up sheep and cattle, dislocated the food market and in many cases completely cut off food supplies.
'A. number of main roads were partially cleared by prodigious effort but many were again blocked by heavy winds shifting snowdrifts often ten to twenty feet deep.
The employment of heavy snow-ploughs permitted trafic on the main railway lines but numerous branch lines have been abandoned stayed passengers to Folkestona to from Boulogne and carried back 4,180 passengers from England to is hoped that Channel services wi Saturday he regular cross= bbe restored om The Arctic conditions obtaining im Europe are strikingly illustrated im a message from Reuter's corres pondent at Warsaw, stating that Inge packs of wolves, maddened by cold and hunger, have killed many peasants in the eastern borderlands, including two women and four smugglers, who had just crossed the border with contraband goods. The Polish authorities have called out troops to exterminate the beasts owing to the hopeless and appalling conditions.
Canterbury was submerged several feet by floods during a short thaw and has now been revisited by frost, The streets are encrusted in two feet of ice.
A fierce gale in the Channel has compelled suspension of the eross-Channel services for four days.
Fifteen hundred travellers to England, including the French Ambas-cader, M. de Fleurian, have been marooned indefinitely' at Boulogne.
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