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Show EUROPE IS SHIVERING I Weather in Switzerland Is the Coldest for Fortj Years. PARIS, Jan. 4. Skating is general In the suburbs and the frost is the most severe in many years. The streets were sheeted with Ice on Tuesday and the cab service In a great measure was suspended. The air was filled with sleet and the fountains are frozen. A heavy snowfall snow-fall is threatened and there Is no immediate imme-diate prospect of milder weather. Wintry conditions in Middle and Western Europe are extraordinary. The blizzard in Switzerland was the fiercest since 1875. Sunday and Monday were the coldest days, with one exception, for forty years. Passengers on the Lausanne-Paris express, after a night spent in a snow- drift, were obliged to return to Lau-sanna. |