Line 5.0.0 The shade temperature In Parts to-

Line 5.0.1 day was 100deg.

Line 5.0.2 Numerous cases of collapse have been

Line 5.0.3 reported from ihe Loire region, where

Line 5.0.4 the temperature has reached 122deg.

Line 5.0.5 The Paris police hare been granted

Line 5.0.6 special financial permission to return to their sta-

Line 5.0.7 tions every hour for refreshing drinks.

Line 5.0.8 London's 94 Degrees

Line 5.0.9 To-day's highest temperature in Lon

Line 5.0.10 don was 94deg. which is the highest for

Line 5.0.11 15 years.

Line 5.0.12 London found the heat almost Insuf

Line 5.0.13 ferable, and remarkable changes In the

Line 5.0.14 dally scenes were wltnessed.

Line 5.0.15 Many 'bus drivers discarded their coats

Line 5.0.16 and drove In their shirt sleeves. Con-

Line 5.0.17 ductors removed their collar* or appeared

Line 5.0.18 In open-neck shirts.

Line 5.0.19 The traditional British formality in

Line 5.0.20 dress received a knock-out blow to-day.

Line 5.0.21 Vast numbers were to be seen In the city

Line 5.0.22 carrying their Jackets over their arms.

Line 5.0.23 Bathing Queues

Line 5.0.24 At every bathing centre queues formed

Line 5.0.25 up. rivalling in length those at the rail-

Line 5.0.26 way statlions which gave exit to the coast.

Line 5.0.27 The Serpentine In Hyde Park was over-

Line 5.0.28 crowded and thousands failed to find

Line 5.0.29 accommodation.

Line 5.0.30 There was no.appreciable change In the

Line 5.0.31 weather to-night.

Line 5.0.32 Up to midnight, 14 deaths, traceable

Line 5.0.33 to the extraordinary heal, had occur-

Line 5.0.34 red. The majority of the victims had

Line 5.0.35 been engaged In manual labor In the

Line 5.0.36 sun.

Line 5.0.37 Hundreds of Instances occurred of

Line 5.0.38 people fainting In the streets and in

Line 5.0.39 factories or offices.

Line 5.0.40 Even policemen on point duty dis-

Line 5.0.41 carded their coats at many centres.

Line 5.0.42 The coroner at Southampton sat In

Line 5.0.43 his shirt sleeves In court to-day, and in-

Line 5.0.44 vited everyone else present to do like-

Line 5.0.45 wise.

Line 5.0.46 The rollers at a printing works at

Line 5.0.47 Leicester became so hot that It was Im-

Line 5.0.48 possible to continue work. In many of

Line 5.0.49 the narrow East End of London streets

Line 5.0.50 it was Impossible to sleep, and scores

Line 5.0.51 left their stuffy tenements to-night and