A COLD CORNER.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 23 May 1916, Page 8

A COLD CORNER.

CLIMATE 0¥ ERZERtfM. 'l'iiat corner of Asia where the Turks are in peril of being smashed between tin; .Hussion anvil and the Brit.sh luflnisiei* comprises within a distance of barely I lie length of the British Isles most eviiaordma'y ranges of temperature. Th:' we are told, stormed Erzerum with the thermrmr'ter recording ivM*.g. < ; f frost: b:reiy KOM miles smith ~! the liar o of tiie British Me opotam'a forces on the Persian gulf is sitttaio.-l in what is surely the warme t plaee on our globe, where loOdeg in ill.' shade li:is been regi t-i-eJ on B.it'sh war.-lrps. The inteiiior of the p<Mvin-ni i between the I\rwun (in f fnd th:< Red fc.-.t i. one of the few ivgrO'.i- i f til-* earth v.'iieh riir.i'ns terra in ■ jiiiitJ, the t 'l'r lie heat exp.T eilred there kei Pinn the nn-t in *r« p'<T explorers outside it - fiOO.fIOO Mitiare miles. The severity of the winter in the neighborhood of Erzertini results IVm its situation on an elevated plateau, which is at an elevated height of COUOt't above sen level, and this ntak s all the difference between its eftmute and that of the South of Italy, which is in tli-. 1 same latitude. The Fivnch Riviera is 250 miles nearer the Arctic than Erzernni. and the Curntsh "Rivira" at least 700 miles neare- the icy north: but Cornwall ge'ls the full ben< lit «t th ' Gulf Stream, that marvellous hot-water system of the North Atlantic, which saves Western Europe from the friy; d temperatures of Central Asia and Labrador, on the satire parallels of latitude.