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Show Londoners Complain of Heat While Americans Only Chortle BY EARL C. PEEVES, International News Service Staff Correspondent. Corre-spondent. QN'PON, Aui;. 2. The consuuit ruin- l'o of it guns, the explosion of hundreds of thousands of tons of I j shells in the six months' continuous continu-ous buttle over 200 miles of front last summer was credited by many Britishers Brit-ishers as being responsible for the cold, el summer. Amor ieuns in tvi'and w Imse chief topic of complaint was not war bread, or rations. -r inconveniences, but surplus waliT. sot 1 ed at the idea. 'This is an exceptional! bad summer," they vet toM. "f know its exceptionally bad. but I1 am not convinced that it is exceptional." vi as t ho reply. And now the war Is over. The battle has shifted to other scenes and" h'ph explosive shells are not nsd. And London Lon-don has had but two of the tui'est showers show-ers in five leutf. dry w eeks. Gardens s re 1 ba kerj. f ru it t hreatens t o he a failure, arid toi'ir suburbanite? eart y t c r and wish. almst.- that war hadn't ended to q uieWly . Certainly. hoy impl-. they know wliat they were talking about when thev said it was th.j lWd - drenched ba.ttleficlds that made Knpland's last uir summer so wer nnd mi sera ble. It is now t lie American's turn to chortle. Ivmdon fusses aud fumes in what it considers posi'ively deadenit.g lira', and streamer he -id! ines y c'ravat-1 t lie t eryipers bv stories of tnc "hottest nihC' during which tho mercury never once got below tir deprtes. OeeasionaHy at. high noon it has been almost warm cnouph to cause an American Ameri-can to shed his coat almost, but not quite. l.ast summer, when it rained until gardens. gar-dens. Merc flooded and bp..0ks became rivers, riv-ers, coiigrega; iop.s prayed and prax ed for less ram. But the rain came- on unceasingly un-ceasingly until I'm duke of Rutland fa-i fa-i trier of Ij.dy r-uuia, J'anners-w rote to ; the TitneF about it. Thm U autt. Illustrative of t e serinijv n 0vs 0f ( 1-, 0 present drrm.ce: . a T.ondon nuimc news pnoer Wireti '.be duke t hi count rv estate es-tate ask ins v. "net her he hadn't bet ' er write anotlier i-Mr to the T'mes atk-injr atk-injr or pra;. c l.'s t:mc for ram. "Vn-ir ram v-n? h n s ben si: ff icie n t ." 1 tl;ke wir'-'ii tiHfk . :. ; - - r g he-e h-;?vi;-. Afraid pa '-sons u n re i 'a b' . " |