HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE

Otago Witness, Issue 3514, 19 July 1921, Page 22

HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE

CROPS SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. LONDON, -July 9. Owing to the unusual heat and the absence of ruin the agricultural outlook is serious. The hut. , e..ling cf oats and barley has begun, instead of in September, as is the practice. London and other cities are threatened with a shortage of water. .Man', deaths from sunstroke and heat apoplexy are reported. July 12. Though the drought is likely to be remembered as the worst in British records, the seriousness is largely forgotten in the suffering through the intense heat. London is as hot as Cairo in the daytime, and hotter at night. The position is made worse by widespread fires on the moorlands and the commons, filling the air with smoke. Many conventions are being dropped. Judges and counsel are discarding wigs, and Parliamentarv Committees are working in their shirt sleeves. l’uris is suffering to a greater extent from the heat wave. the militarv review in connection with the national festival was abandoned. Numbers of both sexes have been fined for dressing too scantily to meet the heat conditions. Belgium is also in the throes of the heat wave. July 14. Though the weather is cooler the drought continues. Grave conditions prevail in various parts of the country. Tin rial e many heath fires in the yi.-icily <.f London, and houses are being saved with difficulty in some cases. Beat moor, mcir Rochdale are afire to a depth of 2ft. The town is full of smoke, hindering work. The Black stone -Kd genu road, leading into Yorkshire. is impassable. Hundreds of sheep aie being iie inerated bv widespread fires on the Yorkshire moors. Baris reports lOOdcg ill the s Made in some places. Forest:- and wheat fields arc burning in certain districts. NEW Y< iRIv, July 10. A heat wave is sweeping the United States. Many deaths and prostrations are reported, and severe damage has been done to crops. Eastern Canada also is suffering.