94 IN THE SHADE

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1930, Page 9

94 IN THE SHADE

HEAT WAVE IN ENGLAND EIGHTEEN DEATHS IN A DAY ■WORK IN BATHING SUITS MANY SLEEP. IN THE OPEN British Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 28. The heat wave continues. The shade temperature in London at 3 o’clock this afternoon was 9-1 degrees, the same as yesterday. Eighteen people died to-day from the heat, and from all parts of the country comes news of men and women collapsing and fainting in the sunscorched. streets. The continuance of the heat wave is giving dress reform great impetus. Waistcoats have practically disappeared ■ ' in London, while many ollieo workers are wearing open-necked shirts, and girls are going without stockings. Some factories where girls only are employed aro even allowing them to work in bathing costumes. Police on traffic duty have discarded their coats, and naked urchins invaded the fountains iif Trafalgar Square until chased out by the police. Eighteen deaths from tho heat have been reported to-day, including an elderly man who suffered a sun stroke while 'attending his brother’s funeral. The temperatures aro the highest in London for 19 years. Many bus drivers have discarded their coats and are driving in their shirt sleeves. There are hun- * dreds of instances of people fainting in the streets, factories and offices. . " A Southampton coroner sat in court ' without his coat and invited all Olliers to do the same. The rollers at a printing works in Leicester became so soft with the heat that . . :it' was impossible to continue. In many narrow ■ East End London streets it was ’impossible to sleep, and shores left the stuffy tenements and slept in chairs on the pavements. TREMENDOUS HEAT IN FRANCE. " TEMPERATURE REACHES 122. . Paris, Aug. 28. France is also suffering extraordinary heat. temperature in Paris to-day was 100, which is the hottest ex- .. late in August since 1870. Numerous cases of collapse are reported in the Loire region, where the temperature is 122 degrees. ' Paris police have been granted special permission to return to their stations . hourly for refreshing drinks.