HEAT AND STORM

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1930, Page 7

HEAT AND STORM

ENGLAND STILL SUFFERS DAMAGE BY THUNDERSTORM TWELVE DEATHS REPORTED FALL IN THE TEMPERATURE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. London, Aug. 30. Despite the clearing effects of a thunderstorm and a drop in the temperature of 14 degrees London continues to swelter under tropical heat. Excessive humidity has nullified the fall in the temperature.

Twelve more deaths from the heat arc reported, including farm hands while harvesting.

Lightning struck a steamer anchored in the harbour, causing water to rush into the engine-room. A .Belgian air liner flying from Brussels to London was struck by lightning. It was unable to nick up the direction signals and was compelled to return to Brussels. Reports from all parts of England refer to houses and churches being struck by lightning ami more or less damaged. Hail smashed hundreds of windows in Scotland. SHEARING OF WOMEN’S HEADS. GIRLS IN BATHING COSTUMES. London, Aug. 29. The high temperature caused the deterioration and destruction of 7000 gallons of milk at a south-west London depot. Hairdressers are busy shearing women’s hair and the heat wave may result in the return of the Eton crop. Many Leicestershire colliers were brought to the surface and given treatment. A number of Derbyshire iron workers collapsed and Staffordshire and Worcestershire steel works are idle. Two more elderly men have died. A number of flannelled youths were ■refused drinks at a West End restaurant because they were not wearing coats. A protest to the manageress was unavailing. Two girls in bathing dress and parasols rode on top of a bus to the Serpentine, which was crowded with swimmers.

The police vainly tried to prevent 300 impatient youths from undressing on the grass after a long and futile wait at the entrance to the bathing sheets. The council permitted all night mixed bathing in the open-air baths. A striking sight at the Wellington barracks was a detachment of young Guardsmen dressed as bathers carrying towels at the “port,” giving “eyes left” as they departed for their morning swim, while the sentries returned the ■salute. ’ /

Business girls are' going about without stockings. The cafes are crowded until 5 a.m.

Owing to the collapse of several soldiers at Aidershot, where 5000 men are camping, drill has been stopped.

The forecast is for a continuance of heat over England, and local storms in Wales and Scotland. The football season starts to-morrow, but play is within the discretion of the umpires. Three middle-aged women and two old men collapsed and died in the London suburbs. The provincial deaths include a stoker, three field workers, two business men, two coal-heavers, and a clerk.