A series of severe earthquakes have been reported throughout New Zealand during the past few days. No deaths have as yet been reported. Several large buildings and other property suffered considerable damage—United Press. still 11 to 12 degrees below zero.
According to the Reichs meteorological service the intensity of the frost will even increase during the next few days, though no snow is expected for northern Germany.
Forty fishing boats got stuck in the ice in the Baltic. In the Kurische and Frische Haff, ie. those parts of the Baltic which lie at the mouths. of the Vistula and the Memel and which are divided from the sea only by a narrow strip of land, the ice thickened during the night to such an extent that all shipping had to stop.
When fishers in the Kurische Haff tried to go out again last night they were completely surprised by the sudden drop in temperature.—The forming of the ice happened. so quickly that many of the boats had not been able to return by this morning. The fishers even considered themselves lucky to be able to get their nets aboard again in time before the sea froze over.—Trans-Ocean.
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