London Half-Dressed

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1064, 30 August 1930, Page 9

London Half-Dressed

HEAT WAVE’S HEAVY TOLL Bathing Girls on Bus-Tops SHIRT-SLEEVED MEN REFUSED DRINK ENGLAND is still gasping in an intense heat-wave, and many deaths are reported, including those of two coalheavers and a fireman. London was yesterday treated to the unusual sight ot girls in bathing-suits riding on bus-tops, young men undressing in the open for a bathe in the Serpentine, and a parade of Guardsmen in bathing dress.

United P.A. —By Telegraph—-Copyright LONDON, Friday.

The highest London temperature today was 94 degrees, and this brought many deaths. Three middle-aged women and two old men collapsed and died in the London suburbs. The deaths in the provinces included a stoker, three field workers, two business men, two coal-heavers and a clerk.

A party of seven flannelled youths were refused drinks at a West End restaurant because they were not wearing coats. A protest to the manageress Avas unavailing. Tavo girls in bathing dress and parasols rode on a bus-top to the Serpentine, which is crowded Avith swimmers.

The police vainly tried to prevent 300 impatient youths undressing on the grass after a long futile Avait at the entrance of the bathing sheds. The Willesden Council permitted allnight mixed bathing in the open-air baths.

A striking sight at the "Wellington Barracks Avas a detachment of young guardsmen dressed in bathing dress, carrying toAvels at the “port” and

giving “eyes left” as they departed for a morning swim, while the sentries returned the salute.

Business girls are increasingly going without stockings. Cafes are crowded until five o’clock in the morning.

Owing to the collapse of several soldiers, the manoeuvres at Aldershot, where 5,000 men are campaigning, have been stopped. The forecast is for a continuance of the lieat over England and local thunderstorms in Wales and Scotland^

The football season opens tomorrow, but play is within the discretion of the umpires. The temperature caused the deterioration and destruction of 7.000 gallons of milk at a South-west London depot. Hairdressers are busy shearing women’s hair. The heat wave may result in a return of the Eton crop. Many Leicestershire colliers were brought to the surface and treated. A number of Derbyshire iron workers collapsed. Staffordshire and Worcestershire steel works are idle. Two more elderly men have died.