HEAT WAVE CAUSES CONCERNS BRITAIN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 9

HEAT WAVE CAUSES CONCERNS BRITAIN

LONGEST SPELL SINCE. 1911 United Service. Received Midnight LONDON, July 25. The heat wave extending from the Red Sea across Europe to New York giving England the longest spell of fine weather since the record summer of 1911, shows lip , signs of "abating after nineteen days, the temperature here varying from $52 to 90 degrees at noon to 75 degrees at midnight, which is high in the City where 100 degrees has only once v - been • recorded. Extraordinary incidents are attributed, to the sudden change from months of cold. Denso coastal fogs arc hampering shipping worse than in winter time. Ninety 'Bow Street policemen are off duty through digestive trouble, while according to over-worked doctors, every kind of germ seems to have come out of cold storage. Stranger still, England’s seaside resorts which normally arc crowded by holiday-makers at this season of the year are complaining that the hotels arc half empty. ’ Tho drought has assumed more serious proportions on the Continent. For instance, in the Fiumo Valley, the Italian Ecclesiastical authorities had sanctioned the parading of the statue of tho Madonna of Sorrows, which is only permitted in periods of- the gravest distress, at the head of a procession marching the Valley and praying for rain.