IN WESTERN EUROPE AND BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 17, 20 July 1921, Page 5

IN WESTERN EUROPE AND BRITAIN

LONDON'S WATER SUPPLY,

THREATENED'^ XlAaa

(UKITED PRESS ASSbciATIOS.—COPJRI6HT.)

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The most serious drought o ,cf>.r(^iiiu / e^ i ,|ii, Western Europe. The rivers _. o^ ;( Jr^cß and Belgium are at the lowest f^velfji'e^ corded for fifty years. Crops_,.lire;,gufjfei^ ing so severely that disaster, !! isj i sire# l tj ened. In some districts.- wafer -fop man and'cattle is being carried for^iW/'Tfie; mountain torrents in Switzerlai«l a¥e' tipti a- third of their usual volume.) slopes' are bare of snow. . -_r' . n s hj-.vt ■The drought in Britain has now".Jqpted 86 days. Though there have occasional light rain-storms in sonto;'di«J tricts, the' general record for hebW#rtfi drought eclipses, all recent drowjjlitsy such as that of 1911, which lasted"for *M days, and that of-1893, which lai&erFfyr 30 days. Many. holiday-makers, .!hifctetal of walking in the day-time, nre )trapip( ing through the night to avoid tli.4lhest< At least a dozen bathing falalitie6 weW announced to-day. > . , l#;h:vo. »(Received July 20, 9 a.m?j-;i?"'

...'• „. LONDON, 19th SjilyT';? It is believed that the heat csusedY^ disastrous fire at a ,Hendon ..fa|toi Jjr| where aeroplane varnish is manufact&V; cd. The workers, knowing the certaiAtV. of.an explosion, fled just in ti&e.'/;Iq escape, the place being blown upJ'jtiifJ flames reaching a height of a lum'dreq 'feet. The damage is estimated c! iv £20,000. . " "J There are gorse and heather fires;,!^ over the country, including Barnes;.CoW mon, where the fire brigade has ; '.pe£ri working since Saturday. . '.^ ( ' Extensive heat fires at Cannock Oiase invaded the colliery districts, and'^tms smoke penetrated the pits, seriously.^rfp torrupting the working of the aiinos^ .j London's water . supply . is . serioWslx threatened. Water will be' rationed^ii the conditions continue. c