Europe Freezes in Bitter Winter Weather London, Jan. 6.
Europe to-day was suffering from the coldest winter in a decade.
Icy winds and heavy "snowstorms swept mountainous countries, leaving havoc in their wake. Rail, road and river traffic was zed. Hundreds of casualties, ifi@luding many deaths, were reported throughout Europe. Snowstorms were responsible for blocking many roads and railw; lies and also freezing rivers and harbours.
For the first time in five years the French Riviera, winter playground of the wealthy, saw snow instead of sun.
Hundeds suffered from cold hunger in the outskirts of Vienna.
Packs of wolves, spurred on by hunger. left their usual grounds in the forests and made raids on farms, attacking cattle in the Carpathian and Bessarabian regions.
Italy was experiencing its most bitter winter in years. Hundreds of gondoliers were temporarily prevented from plying their trade as canals in Venice were frozen.
Artig-like conditions prevailed along the Aragon front in Spain, where furious blizzards crippled all movements. of both the Nationalists and the Republicans—United Press.
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