TO CORRESPONDENT.
“ Hopeful.”—Cruttwell (‘ A History of the Great War ’) gives the extreme temperatures during the Mesopotamian campaign as about 122 deg and 20deg Fah., each month showing a rango of from BOdeg to 70deg. Gertrude Bell notes a heat wave, Bagdad temperature of 122.8 deg (tins m 1917). The ‘ Bncyclopcedia Britannica ’ cites a temperature of 12Jdcg as “ having been recorded ” in Bagdad.
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Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 14
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