OVER NINETY IN SHADE
AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY
HOTTEST OF THE CENTURY
LONDON, August 7. Bathing'"by sunlight, moonlight, and floodlight, ana record traffic by road, rail, air, and sea, marked the1 hottest bank holiday weekend for thirty-three years. The shade temperature was 92 degrees, dropping only 10 .degrees at night. Many outbreaks of fire occurred in forests and on moorlands. Fifteen people were drowned, and eighteen were killed in road accidents; two died from heat. Portsmouth Road carried 4000 vehicles an .hour —a record. One hundred and sixfy air liners packed to capacity were used at Croydon. < The heat wave covers the grpater part of Europe. Two hundred and fifty parading Nazi Storm.Troopors in Berlin collapsed owing to' the heat.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 7
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119OVER NINETY IN SHADE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 7
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