Show Azizia Is Worlds World's Hottest Place I Inland Town of Italian Tripoli Holds Record Washington Washington Azizia bristles with so does sizzling and there you have the story of this inland town of Italian Tripoli In one word says a n bulletin from the Washington headquarters headquarters head head- I quarters of ot the National Geographic society That Azizia fully deserves the adjective adjective ad nd- Is apparent continues the bulletin from the fact that It has hns Just shouldered our own Death val valley I ley from first place as the tho worlds world 8 I hottest place A sheltered thermometer ter at Greenland ranch In Death valley valley valley val val- ley on July 10 1913 reached 1841 1341 degrees Fahrenheit which stood as ns the worlds world's verifiable record until the Azizia temperature temperature degrees degrees- recently announced was observed last summer I Was Military Headquarters I 1 Azizia is little more than a desert village the village-the the north African equivalent for our wide places in the road but road but It is strategically located about 2 23 25 miles Inland from Tripoli City and the Mediterranean It figured ly In the guerrilla warfare between the Italians on one side and the Turks and Arabs on the other that went on from 1911 until recently When the Italians landed in Tripoli and the Turks fled fied from that city In spite of ot its insignificance was made the Turkish headquarters It consisted consist consist- ed of the building building-a a sort of ot administrative administrative administrative ad ad- stronghold and stronghold and several rows of ot low narrow walled mud bar bar- I racks But there was also an nn unseen i side to numerous Azizia-numerous numerous underground dwellings of the extremely poor inhabitants inhabitants in In- habitants of ot the country Sloping tunnels tunnels tun tun- nels led to a n depth of ot 8 or 10 feet teet under under under un un- der the surface surface and through very small openings Into chambers hollowed hollowed hollowed hol hol- lowed from the conglomerate rock of ot the region and the country in which It lies lles have two totally different aspects aspects as as- that following the rainy season of winter and that during the much longer dry season After Atter the rains large largo regions are covered with grass which supports flocks of sheep and numerous camels In summer most of the country seems a n hopeless desert desert desert des des- ert of golden sand gray scrub rocks and heat hent Pleasant Refuge In Reach The Italians who now have Tripo Tripo- Tripoli I li II pretty well under control have built a n railway from Tripoli City through Azizia and on into the Jebel 15 or 20 miles mUes to the south The Jebel Is usually considered a n mountain range but In reality It Is the escarpment of the Sahara plateau broken Into gigantic steps which has all the appearance of ot a mountain range from the low ground to the north The lower levels of the Jebel are bare and sun-baked sun but higher up is the pleasant green of ot olive groves The level parts of still higher steps are carpeted with luxuriant grass durIng during during dur dur- ing a n considerable part of ot the year The top of the Jebel lies about 2000 feet above sea level On its Ita crest Just south of Azizia and on a 11 used long-used pass is the town of ot Ghani- Ghani an a n place of Importance In Roman times Near by are the ruins of ot Roman Reman Ro Ro- man mrm villas If Increases In hi importance Importance Importance Im im- because of ot the railway may become its Simla to whose whoso cooler and greener upper levels those who must live In the desert town may flee during the sizzling summer heat |