HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18659, 30 August 1930, Page 17

HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE.

Hottest Days For Years. DRESS REFORM ADVOCATED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 28. To-day was the hottest temperature in London for nineteen years. Many ’bus drivers have discarded coats and are driving in their shirt sleeves. There were hundreds of instances of people fainting in the streets, factories and offices. The Southampton Coroner sat in Court without a coat, and invited all others to do the same. The rollers at the printing works in Leicester were so hot that it was impossible to continue. In many narrow East End London streets it was impossible to sleep. Scores left stuffy tenements and slept in chairs on the pavements. Deaths Reported. The continuance of the heat wave is giving dress reform a great impetus. Waistcoats have practically disappeared in London, while many office workers are wearing open necked shirts. Girls are going without stockings, some factories where girls only are employed even allowing them to work in bathing costumes. Police on traffic duty have discarded coats, and naked urchins invade the fountains in Trafalgar Square, until chased out by the police. Eighteen deaths from heat have been reported to-day, including an elderly man, who suffered a sun stroke while attending his brother’s iunerai. The temperature in London is 94.

HIGH TEMPERATURES. SIX DEATHS REPORTED. British omclal wireless RUGBY, August 28. The heat wave continues. The shade temperature In London at 3 o’clock this afternoon was 92 degrees Pah., the same as yesterday. Six people died to-dp.y from heat, and from all parts of the country comes news of men and women collapsing and fainting in the sun-scorched streets. HEAT WASTE ON CONTINENT. PRANCE IN A SWELTER. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, August 28. France also is suffering from extraordinary heat. The shade temperature in Paris is 100, which is the hottest experienced In late August since 1870. Numerous cases of collapse are reported in the Loire region, where the temperature was 122 degrees. Paris police have been granted special permission to return to the stations hourly for refreshing drinks.