TORRID HEAT
CONDITIONS ON KENYA FRONTIER. A correspondent with the South African forces states that the terrific heat in which South African troops are operating is shown by the fact that down in the Lugga an armoured car section has a thermometer which registered 150 deg. in the open during the morning and a thermometer under the tent of a three-ton lorry registered 130 deg. The metalwork of the cars becomes so hot that it burns the fingers. “It is bard to face bully beef that runs from the tin and tinned butter that melted into yellow grease,” he writes. Cigarettes become so dry that the seams become unstuck. The sun beats so intensely, he declares, that it is essential to wealsun helmets, even when in tents. In addition to the heat, there is blinding dust to contend with, and always the danger that the tents will be blown away. The weather does not cool off until 4 a.m.. when it turns chilly, but after a couple of hour; of cool temperature the men have to get up to face another day of heat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1941, Page 6
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