EUROPE’S HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1928, Page 2

EUROPE’S HEAT WAVE

EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ; LONDON, July 25. There is a heat wave now extending from the Red Sea across Europe to New York. It is giving England the longest spell of fine, weather since tiie record summer of 1911. The heat shows no sign of abating after 19 days. During, that time the -'’•A temperature here has been varying from 82 degrees to 90 degrees at noon to 75 degrees at midnight, which is high in the City, where 100 degrees was only once recorded. i Extraordinary incidents are attributed to the sudden change from months of cold. There are dense coastal fogs, hampering the shipping worse than in the winter time. Ninety Bow street policemen are off duty through digestive trouble, while coord i tig to the over-worked doctors every kind of germ seems to have come out of cool storage. Stranger still, England’s seaside re- ,<S sorts, which normally are crowded with holiday makers at this season of the year, are complaining that the hotels are half empty. The drought lias assumed more seriouls proportions on the Continent. For instance, in the Fiume Valley, the Italian ecclesiastical authorities have sanctioned the parading of the statue of the Madonna of Sorrows, whioli is only permitted in periods of the grav- : est distress, at the head of a procession through the valley, and praying for rain. ‘