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Even The Sea Froze In Great Cold Spell Along British Isles BRITAIN'S "HUSH-HUSH' FREEZE WAS RECORD SINCE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
SNOW REACHED TOPS OF HOUSES
IN
THE COUNTRY
It can now be revealed that during the cold wave which descended on Britain just before Christmas, and lasted into the first half of January, 35 degrees of frost was recorded in one part of the country. It was the coldest period for 45 years.
The remarkable results of the cold could not be reported, as
All 'bus services between towns
and villages in this part of Kent were abandoned for days, snow filling
COLD STORAGE CO., LTD the Censor forbade all reference ronds to the hedge tops.
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to the weather until 15 days after the event,
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So that a wedding party might be able to reach the parish church at Capell three miles from Folkestone, a gang of men worked five days cut- ting 11 way through the blocked roads to the church. Among the gang was the bride's father.
B.E.F.'s FRONT WAS ATTEMPT
ALSO A MORASS
By PETER LAWLESS
Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent
With the British Air Force in France. For 48 hours the long spell of 'unusually severe weather has been slowly breaking, and the allernate thaws and frosts have been playing disconcerting tricks with the road and pavement surfaces.
First we had a night of Silver, road running parallel with the Thaw with rain falling on the front, did damage estimated at frozen ground and turning to feel more than £5,000, besides hinder- as it fell.
ing operations for upwards of two Then thaw set In, and when the months while the road was being world was a wasio ́of mud and repaired. melting snow hear frost came, so Every step to prevent unneces- that the transports appeared pos- sary damage has been taken by sessed of the devil and the | the French authorities here. Traffic populace slithered uncontrolled in controls have been established all nerve-racking curves. often to along the roads, and special regula- Temperatures in London were well
finish bruised but escaping con-ilons have been put into force. below freezing point for over a week,
cussion.
All concerned have been warned and 25 degrees of frost was register
Generals, privates, and rag that summary action will be laken at suburban weather stations,
plckers all sat down together, and against any offenders, and the Tho Thames was frozen over at
humour, consisting as it does. In point has been emphasised that un- Kingston and for eight miles be-
·other · people's misfortunes, theless all precautions are adhered to tween Teddington and Sunbury,
village streets have been filled without question, tho serviceability In the Capel district snow reached Higher up the river many locks
with ill-disguised merriment.
of the roads may be at stake, Transport on roads during or! Twelve inches of lee to the housetops of some homes, and
The movement of certain types" were frozen. covered London reservoirs.
familles found themselves trapped! Immediately following a thaw can of forries when loaded, and certain
ས- until they could Other results of the cold
cut a were.
way out
tremendous lot of destruction. |other transport, is forbidden.. On The sea
I remember an occasion in 1917 | no account
to are vehicies be froze as it lapped the through their doors. sllore al
near Bognor Felpham,
Families in some of the
when a battery commander, by moved off a good road or hard shifting his guna along 13 miles of standlag, Regis, Sussex, a line of ice stretch-isolated districts near Folkestone were ing along the coast for 300 yards. completely cut off for nearly a fort- A woman, found dead in her night. Tradespeople were unable to bath at Islington, London, was alt-reach their homes for 12 days, and ting in a block of ice.
supplies ran very short.
On Romney Marsh, Kent, where thousands of sheep graze, many farmera report that sheep were frozen to death, while others were lost for days in drifts. All feeding
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Members of the Itoyal Household skated daily at Frogmore, Windsor Castle. During their visit to Wind- sor the King and Queen watched winter sports on the frozen lake.
Skating for the first time in 11 for flocks, had to be carried from years was possible on Rydal Water farms to the sheep for over a week. and other lakes in Westmorland. Ski-ing on the hills at Folkestone The thermometer fell below zero became an everyday happening, while Secretary.in
places many
With huge snow-traders used aleighs instead of their Hongkong, 20th February, 1940.drifts piled around as well, people in motor vans to deliver goods.
the country suffered acutely, being
Shipping Hold Up imprisoned in cottages for days.
During one spell of fog`alipping "On the Serpentine, in London, movements were at a standstill for skating was confined to the
Thames estuary. Water, which means that a third of 36 hours on the
An indication of the severity of the whole stretch of water was
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At Kingston-on-Thames the awans Skating was possible in most parts suffered severely. One of the birds the lee in mid- of the country, and championships came frozen in were held on Lingay Fen, Cambridge-stream just above Kingston bridge. rescued by Mr. Alfred Enims, swing in Derbyshire and other hilly of Kingston, who put out in a bout and broke his way through the ice. The swan was brought ashore and recovered in a pen..
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Demand for Oil Stáves There was on unprecedented
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Woman Cannot
Be Widow Husband
Of
She Divorced
TO CURB JAPAN'S ARMY
Tada Reveals Plans To American Correspondent
PEIPING, (UP), --- Lieut-Gen. Hayao Tada, supreme Japanese ormy commander in North China, outlined four objectives in connection with future military operations, in an in- terview with Harry T. Brundidge, St. Loula Star-Times. writer. His Interview was the first granted to a newspuperman since taking the high command.
Gen. Tadu's stated objectives are: Elimination by the Japanese army of aerial bombings of Chinese civilian populations in unfortified towns.
Instructions falready given) to all Japanese soldiers that henceforth. any misconduct'will result in punish-". ments from imprisonment to death,
Orders to soldiers to conduct them- selves humbly and not be represen=" tatives of a conquering power.
Restoration of the Chinese farmer to the soll, and the soil to the farmer; new standards of living for allevin- tion of suffering in poverty-stricken districts.
The interview was arranged by Col. Hitoshi Hamada, chief of the press section of the North China headquarters of the Imperial Jopan- ese Army, and his assistant Lieut. Mosaru Takata. Licut Takata acted
s interpreter.
To Pacify China
In the course of. on exchange of questions and answers, Gen. Tada sald the Japanese expeditionary forces will proceed with their ori ginal mission to pacify China. The army will assume responsibility for the maintenance of peace and order, but all political, cultural and econo- mic matters, excepting affairs of
A WOMAN whose husband dies after she has divorced him cannot be his widow.
This was a ruling by Mr. Justice Simonds in a Chinese farmers. will continue to be Chancery Division action over a will.
as
handled by the China Affairs Board (which meets regularly in Tokyo),
My
greatest concern to-day is the
The judge quoted the Oxford Dictionary definition of a widow a woman whose husband is dead and who has not re- Chinese farmer." said Gen. Tado: "He constitutes 00 per cent of China's married, or a wife bereaved of 400,000,000 and nowhere else on her husband."
earth are to be found such miserable live in poverty and summons taken out by an exccu-squalor and millions die of starva- tor of the late Mr. Charles
tlon.
"It is our plan to restore the Henry Goodwin Norman, father farmer to the soll, and to enable
The question was raised on a people. They Forced To
Confess, Declares
of Mrs. Dorothy Esther Bethune each family to earn enough to raise Cozens, of Cross Oak Road, the standards of living." Berkhamsted (Herts).
husband,
Who
North Wales railways were snowed
There were striking evidences of and ice covered stretches of the the effects of the extraordinarily low Humber, Mersey and Severn.
temperature in the home. The num- The total number of deaths is unber of frozen water pipes must have known, but it is believed there must
constituted record. have been hundreds.
Thousands of people were without Frozen water pipes caused kitchen their The Transfer Books of the Com- boller explosions resulting in many for ordinary running water supply i
days. So widespread was
"Isn't it rather difficult for the will be CLOSED from casualties. At Newcastle 4 whole the trouble that
Metropolitan
average Chinese to understand such ...7 pm. SATURDAY, the 23rd MARCH, family of six was killed when the Waler Board sent out men to ax
high purposes when your soldiers A Half-Sharo house boller burst.
I chose him through the rice felds and At-Edgbaston-Observatory, outside stand pipes from the mains.
In many parts householders-could- Husband
Byhis-will-it-was-slated, Mr.keep him one jump ahend-of-a Birmingham, the extraordinary read-be
Norman waiting thair tura to All be seen
gave half his residuary bayonet in his back?" ing of 35 degrees of frost was re-buckets. Before this measure Was
estate to his daughter, Mrs. Winifred corded on the ground, and there adopted by the Water Board, people THAT he had been forced other half to Mrs. Cozens, during her
Alice Mitchell, absolutely, and the Not Warring on Pooplo were records up to 30 degrees of frost in difficulties had been dependent on
Gen. Toda smiled broadly and In the Midlands the first half of neighbours whose pipes were not by threats by his wife's ite and, after her death upon trust said:
some other places.
mother to write a letter to for her children.
"Japan has been vividly pictured January this year was the coldest
his wife confessing infideli-bele directed that It Mrs. Cozens In America as making war against since 1884 and the coldest spell since
widow and had no children, these unfortunate people But it is February, 1895.
We are warring against Traffle between London and Bir-mand for vil stoves to put in or under ty, and that the "confession" her share of his residuary estate not true
transferred to her for her bandita, war lords and Communists. should be mingham on the Grand Union Canal the water elstern lofts, but many was untrue, were state-absolute use and beneßt.".
The fundamental
purpose of was at a standstill for several days. people found that, owing to big ments made in the Divorce In 1936, Mrs. Cozens divorced her Japan's armed action in China is to The constant use of an ice-breaking Army this
it was difficult,
domination of died last year. There prevent Europeon Court by Mr. Alec Spalter, was no issue. to get them. boat kept the short stretch between not
East Asia and to make East Asia Notice is hereby given that the Tyseley and Birmingham open to Many possessors of stoves had Camden Road. London, Mr. Justice Simonds said Mrs. safe for East Asiatics.
their first practical experience of the
Cozens now alaimed that, having survived capture & moppie
had bel remarried and she "It is true that when our troops AN.W. the River Severn was laws against Sunday trading. A
a town, or a village, Mr. Spalter contested a pet-titled to one-half of the residuary These are not piensant, but neces
Mr. Cozens, she became absolutely there are
up' operation of the Company, No. 2 Queen's frozen over in places to a thickness Sunday was one of the days when the of 14in., traffic on the river pro- frozen pipes danger was at its
We must subdue, and some. 26th March, 1940, at noon for the superintendent of the Severn Com- able to get parafin. Dealera refused Mrs. Coralie Spalter, of Mapes-terest.
Not Her Husband
our aims and ideals." Mar, 12, 5 pm.consideration of the Directors mission, said that it was only the to break the law even in such an bury Road, Brondesbury, N.W.
constant day Mar, 13, 8.30 am. Report and Balance Sheet for the kept this important waterway open,
and night traffle that emergency.
The judge said it had been
this question was put to Gen. Sixteen degrees of frost were re-proved beyond shadow of doubt, fury the judge said that at the time
After quoting the Oxford Diction- Tada: year ending 31st December, 1939.
Lancashire
e experienced the severest corded in Edinburgh, and thousands
"But we .Mar. 12, 5 p.m.
do not understand the Both were employed in her father's Mr. Cozens died he was not her hus-bombing and killing of Chinese- .Mar. 13, 8.30 am. The Share Register and Trans-winter for nearly 10 years. Canals of people skated. The upper reaches
fer Books will be closed from the froze, and after van attempts to of the harbour at Leith Docks were costumler's business, and after the band, and it was impossible to say civilians." Wednesday, Mar. 13
you do not understand," the .10.30 am.
keep them open with ice-breakers, covered by lec. A few days later a head stockkeeper alter became the that she became his widow.
Somewhat reluctantly he came to general replied. The bombings of Fort Bayard and Holhow..11.30 p.m. 15th to 26th March, 1940, both days barge traffe was brought to a stand-"pen soup" fog made the black-out head stockkeeper, and a Miss Joan
the conclusion that he could not do so-called unfortified towns with, re- still, and the canals were left to the so complete that torches were use-Floyd acted as his assistent.
Scen Kissing
violence to 'buses took the
It was denied on Mrs. Spalter's and he decided age of the will, sultant killings of civilians
that Mrs. Cozens did been necessary accidents. Such Two Months to Repair Pipes wrong routes and the whole of Edin-behalf that her husband's confession not become the widow of Mr. Cozens bombings were involved in military
was in any way exforted from him. So many pipes burst at Minehead, burgh's transport system was for a
and so did not become entitled to operations and there will no more Miss Floyd took no part at the have transferred to her one molety bombings of unfortified.citles, towns: Somerset, that plumbers say It will time entirely suspended. be two months before they con repair: It can now be revealed that the hearing of the petition.
of the residuary estate absolutely. and villages." them all, even though they work at hold-up and dislocation of leave for Glving judgment, Sir Boyd Merri- full pressure.
the British Forces at Christmas was man said there was evidence of an At Southampton the ground tem- due largely to the severity of the air of familiarity between Mr. Spal- perature dropped as low as 21deg of weather and its effect on transport. ter and Miss Floyd and also that they with their frost. Lakes and ponds in the town Fog also delayed vessels carrying had been seen kissing,
arms round each other. were frozen over for the troops from France... and district first time for many years.
Frozon-Rain
The wife's case, Sir Boyd Merri- Some Idea
Idea of the arctic conditions One of the more unusual features man continued, was that, in the which prevailed may be gained of the cold spell, noticeable in the course of a discussion on December from the fact that the sea water in early part of January, was the fall 28, 1938, to clear up certain admitted the outer docks at Southampton had ing of frozen rain. This differs from facts, Mr. Spalter agreed to turn out a coating of Ice and that a steamer the more common hall.
his pockets to show that he had no
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Thursday, Mar. 14
E. COCK, Chief Manager, Hongkong, 27th February, 1940.
Husband And Wife As
Joint Pastors
......
Jens.
Tramcars
and
freezing, where the drops of
Eurance policy; and agreed to sign an with Miss Floyd.
The husband, on the other hand,
was a concoction, and that he was
The
Then
Children Need Not
Who Die
havo
DIPHTHERIA is as great a scourge, to-day as at any
time during the last 40 years.
This is shown in an official memorandum issued by Mr. Wal
belonging to a local shipping com- Frozen rain Is water vapour con-weapon; agreed to assign his in- A HUSBAND and wife have pany was surrounded by fee while densed to rain which, in falling adequate confession of his adultery ter Elliot, Health Minister. No abatement of incidence of the Sandakan
12.30 pm. been appointed joint pastors of lying at her berth every night.
temperature Fort Bayard
1.30 p.m. the old Independent Congroga ing down the River Itchen was also moisture are frozen to small blocks
The unusual sight of icefloes float-passes through a belt of Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu U.S.A.,
disease or permanent reduction of morality has taken place since tional Church Central and South America vin
at Haverhill seen.
of ice. Hail is water vapour which gave details of a conversation de the early yenre of the century, San Francisco-due San Francisco (Essex).
In the Folkestone district the sea is condensed straight to ice without signed to show that the confession Diphtheria la essentially a disease order of magnitude, among the causes 1st April .................Mar. 14.
froza in the harbour and on the first becoming, water, * Gr.O. and K.TO.
They are the Rev. Claud Marshall shore, the ice being several inches The last time the Thames was asked to write it under the threat of of children under 15 years of age, of mortality during the arst two yERIA. ...Noon, Colman
and the Rev. Constance thick. Mary Coliman.
frozen was on Feb. 17, 1020, when duress and by a false pretence that says the memorandum. About 60,000 of life, and at four years becomes Reg
.1.45 p.m.
Towns and villages in south-east a mile of the river was covered with the wife's mother would never show canes are notified each year in Eng und remains for the next six or
land and Wales, and the average seven years the principal · cause of· .2.30 p.m.
Mrs. Coltman, the mother of three road for many days owing to flerce more than 60 persons
England were completely cut off by feo.pt Wallingford-on-Thames and it to her daughter.
annual number of deaths is approxi- death of children of school ago. Air Mail for Manlis, Guam, Honolulu children, was the first woman or snowstorms. During one fall lasting In February, 1008,
walked across.
Husband's Hope. and U.S.A., by the "Pan Ameri dained to the Congregational minis only an hour and a half at Folkestone shivered in: 45deg
mately 3,000. Londoners His lordship (said ́ho thought 'thè
The way to safety in artificial im can Aleways Direct Servies" dae try.
frost. Other confession was given voluntarily, and It occupies the seventh place in munisation which properly carried San Francisco, 21st March,
nearly one foot of snow foll exceptionally low readings include because it was, cómmon ground be
out, involves no riskā T.P.O.
She graduated at Oxford and took The Folkestone-London main road 34der of frost In December, 1860, tween the three persona present that Mar. 14, 5 p.m. her B.D. at London, where her huse was completely blocked for days at and 30deg at Christmas, 1796f the husband had committed adultery, int Uiere had been any sort of It is urged that tile should be „Mar. 14, 523 p.m. ]band obtained His MA,
Newington and on the Folkestone Dec. 4, 1870, holds the record for, and because he hoped that, by mak
undertaken as early in the child's life. G.P.O.
Dover rand caro and forries were the coldest visitation in this country, ing a clann breast of lt, he might got The wife would be granted a de- as is practicable and should form an ...Mar. 14, 5 pm. The old Independent Church snowed up in drifte 10 to 12 feet On that date 65deg of frost was ro-out of other troubles more easily, crem nisl, with costs, and the custody integral part of the work of chin. Mar. 18, 7.30am. Haverhill was founded in 1002.
deep.
Histored in Berwickshire,"
It was sheer nonsenso to suggest of the children.
Iwelfare centrer.
Rox.,
Ord.,
Ber Orda
at
duresa,