TERRIFIC HEAT WAVE
MESOPOTAMIA SWELTERING. SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BASRA, August 10. Mesopotamia is far outdoing the American heat wave. At, present it is the hottest place on earth. The shade temperature at Basra is reaching 130 deg. daily. Two members of the Royal Air Force and a number of other Europeans died at Bagdad. Elsewhere there are numerous cases of heat stroke. Even Arab coolies and Bedouins are dropping dead.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 9
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