Kevere Frost in England Said (0 be Breaking with Promise of Thaw About London: Firemen Helpless in rench Outbreaks London, Feb. 15.
Interse cold continues allover Britain, The frost in the early jours this moming in many places the severest felt since 1895.
Pewple skited Jong past midnight near London, temperature of two.degrees Yalow were was recorded at Hamp. stead and four below zero at Ross At nine o'clock the mid-London temperature was five degrees of frost compared with mine at the same time the previous morning. The weather continues severe in the rest the country although less so in the south-west and further heavy snowfalls are yeported.—British Wireless through Reuter.
Brigades Helpless The worst snowstorm for years surved in north-east Yorkshire. in full swing for in thirty years on the Mixer None, in Northampton.
The discomfort of residents Central London later in the morning. way increased by a choking and Ulinding pea-soup fog.
Tee-breakers are very busy on the Upper Thames, breaking up ice to prevent dangerous ice-floes when thaw sets in.
Skating Championship After a lapse of 31 years a for the International Amateur Paris, Feb. 17.
One of the most serious aspects of the unusually cold weather is the number of fires which are occurring and which the fire-brigades cannot fight owing to the water-mains being frozen. up. Yesterday a pro-sion dealer's depot at Tery futted by fire, we factories were. destroyed at Lyons and the wing of a hospital at San Julien, in Haute Savoie, was burned down, a patient dying as the result of exposure to the inclement weather. were rescued.—Reuter,
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