Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Friday 15 February 1929, page 1


BIZARRE EFFECT AT LONDON FIRE

PARIS, Wednesday.

Statictics collected throughout Europe show that deaths due to the so-called "ice age" is approaching

20,000.

At least 2,500 deaths, owing to influenza, have occurred in France. There have been several hundred deaths from drowning and shipwreck, of which 120 were in Holland, 120 in Germany, 50 in Italy and more than

100 have been reported as frozen to death in Europe, though deaths indirectly due to the intense cold are incal-

culable.

To-day's reports show there is little abatement of the wintry conditions.

SPORT DISORGANISED

LONDON. Wednesday.

The Arctic weather has disorganis-ed sport throughout lïurope. Rven the tennis tournaments in 1he Riveirn.hn.s been cancelled owing to snowfalls. ,

Horse racing at .Birmingham and Hurst Park has boen abandoned. Tn coursing the Waterloo Cup Meeting at Altear is impossible.

Skating is the only nourishing sport in Brit:iln tbongil members of the Serpentine swimming club, who bathe all the year round, have refused to be denied their customary dip.