London, May 25. London swellered in a heat wave to-day, when the tempers ture reached the eighties, the hottest day since last August.
"All Londoners who could do 0 Aocked to the parks, where some sought shelter in the cool shade of trees and others bathed in the Serpentine. "Overseas visitors perspired freely as they went Sightseeing on foot in the absence of, buses.
The heat put the fire alarm at St. Paul's church-yard Into action, causing eight engines and forty firemen {o turn out—Reuter. that they fired 200 shots from a dis {ance of twelve "kilometres. The coastal batteries fired seventy rounds in reply. The attackers retired under:
smoke screen, The" bombardment, warning. is said to have been staged without The Valencia Government after an urgent meeting of the Cabinet, tele-raphed the Spanish delegation at the League of Nations to discuss the bombardment with other League delegates. Telegrams from Almeria declared the extent of the damage done by the warships guns was very extensive.—United Press,
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