RECORD HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1928, Page 2

RECORD HEAT WAVE

LONDON SWELTERING, NU3IEROUS CASUALTIES. Australian Press Assn. —United Service LONDON, July 15. London to-day has experienced its hottest day since July 1923. The present heat wave has broken all the previous records as regards its length. BERLIN, July 10. The heat to-day reached. 89 degrees in Berlin. The whole population of the city have indulged in a gigantic picnic on the banks of the Grunewald and the Potsdam lakes. Hundreds of thousands' of Berliners are spending the day in bathing dresses. ' VIENNA, July 15. There has been no rain here for the past month. _ « Tlie Danube River and the bathing beaches are crowded. There have been over one InUjdred bathers drowned in Austria sim“ the first of the present monin. LONDON, July 16. The Daily 31ail Paris correspondent reports record heat there. The shade w temperature to-day has been ninetW-j nine degrees. This record has been rivalled by 1014, when the “Old Contomptibles” were , engaged in tlie historic retreat from 3lons. <t;• Three deaths have occurred in the city of Paris from" the heat, despite the city being nearly deserted. The whole population of Paris have rushed to the seaside. The excessive heat has caused a series of motor accidents through the bursting of the tyres. Already fi"'- "■ sons have been reported killed and twelve seriously injured 'in these accidents. The heat expanded the rails and derailed two trains, three persons being , killed and many injured. ~l PRAGUE. July 16. The city is suffering from a water famine. There are hundreds of workmen engaged, in increasing tlie water supplies.