Real Climate Records

LONDON, October 8.

A great part of Europe has been literally sizzling for the past week, in Southern England, particularly, the mercury has been smashing records.

Wednesday’s and Thursday’s temperatures were 5 degrees higher than the hottest day of 1920. The newspapers are devoting columns dally to the remarkable conditions, which are the subject of picturesque journalism.

“Chill October” has been renamed “Grill October.” At the seaside gaiety provails, but in the cities south of the Tyne millions of people are sweltering throughout the day and night.

There is a mild epidemic of influenza through out the country.

Among the other effects of the heat wave is the cancellation of to-day’s Rugby football matches in London, due to the hardness of the ground. The foundations of St. Norman’s Church, at

Upwood, which is famous as the birth-place of members of the Cromwell family, have sunk, causing wall fractures. The walls of London houses are cracking, Several prominent racehorses have been with drawn from autumn events because it is impossible to train them on the hard

ground.

Londoners, and also Australians in London, are tiring of the oppressive and prolonged summer.

Hopes for cooler weather have been raised by roports of floods and storms in Scotland, and the Scilly Isles.

There has been phenomenal heat In Paris, and the temperature has broken a record which has stood since 1757.