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"Baltic Frozen As Far As The Eye Can See ARCTIC WEATHER

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London, To-day.

COMINOUS GERMAN

SCENES not duplicated for many years have follow-MOVES IN ed the descent of Arctic cold upon Northern SLOVAKIA

Europe. It is possible to-day, for instance, to walk from Denmark tó Sweden, as The Sound is frozen over from coast to coast.

Copenhagen harbour is completely frozen in and the Baltic is one great sheet of ice for as far as the eye can see from the Danish coast.

Similar reports come from all points| along the shores of the Baltic,

Bo Intense is the cold in Estonia that children have been forbidden to go to school. Temperatures in the country are lower than have over previously been recorded.;

Bucharest, To-day. Rumania is completing the construction of a strongly fortified line cov- ering her frontiers, chief- ly in the west (opposite Hungary) and in the distress among the poorer classes. north (facing Soviet Rus- sia), well-informed quar- ters declare.

79 degrees of frost.

Hospitals are remaining open night|

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Budapest, To-day. Reliable information from Slovakia indicates that the German army is

attempting to strengthen

and day to attend cases of frost-bite. its grip on the country.

The Slovak authorities re-

Many lorries and private cars are frozen up on the roads.

The Underground is packed with cently received a German de- people seeking relief from the bitter-mand that German officers

A greater part of Germany is underly cold winds. - a heavy blanket of mow and the coal shortage in Berlin is causing acute

Germany's waterborne trans- port is completely paralysed, and similar conditions prevail through- out the greater part of the length of-the-Danube, throughout.Holland...... and Belgium.

The river Maas in Holland is re-

Reuter.

It is reported that King Carol ordered construction of ported to be frozen almost solid. the fortified line immediate- ly after the Munich Agree- ment, and tens of thousands of workers have since been engaged in the task.

A gigantic ditch, 136 feet wide, has been dug out all along the northern frontler and can be flooded In hour.

Powerful Line

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Behind this moat is a powerful line of machinegun nests and anti-tank barriers to protect Rumania's frontiers.

Because of their high cost, concrete defence works are used only in highly strategic places, notably for protection of the mountain passes in the Car- pathlan range.—Havas.

MOSCOW DISAVOWAL

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Moscow, To này The Tass agency brands as "sheer invention reports appearing in the "Frankfurter Zeitung", assertin that the Soviet in the negotiations with Finland "before the: tbreak claimed Funnaxation region.

And Nazis Are To Cut Coal Ration !

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Brussels, To-day.

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While bitter cold grips the whole of Europe, Germany is taking new mea- sures to limit coal consumption for the civilian population.

The official Nazi Gazette, pub- lished in Berlin yesterday contains a doorde entrusting minor officials of the Nazi party with control and restriction of the supply of hot water in apartment houses.

In certain cities hot water will be available only two days a week. Havas.

Soviet Air ForceTM Kept On Ground

Helsinki, To-day. The bitter weather has brought a halt to Soviet air attack, because few of their planes are equipped with any device, to prevent ice from forming on the wings.--

Little activity took place in land operations for the same reason, though the Finnish communique-speaks of patrols harassing the Soviet troops in the region nort

fake

Reuter.

88 DEGREES OF FROST

Oslo, To-day.

be appointed to command se- veral important military gar- risons.

The temperature at Telnesse, on

The city of Fresov, which is an im- the Norwegian-Swedish frontier, yes-portant railway centre, has been placed terday defied the mercury In the under the authority of a member of thermometer, which failed to register, the German General Staff, -The alcohol thermometer showed 88 degrees of frost.-Reuter.

OPERATIONS FROZEN

Frontier Activity

Feverish activity is going on the Hungarlan and `Ruthenian frontiers, where German engineers are, improv. Ing and opening new roads.

Paris, To-day. Both land and air activity on the Many new troops are expected to western front has been reduced and arrive soon, and all hotels have been practically suspended as the result of commandeered for German officers, the bitter cold and further heavy who are expected to arrive on Fe- storms during the night. Reuter. bruary 1-Havas.

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