There is a rumour that some sixty missionaries, Protestant and Roman Catholic, have been massacred in Taiyuanin and its vicinity.
Herein appears to be included the Shouyang Mission of Mr. I. W. Pigott, whose friends at home are reported to have telegraphed out, offering a reward of S. barometric maximum advances towards the Loochoos. Another system of h pressures prevailing over Saghalien Inbands. Area of low pressures over Mongolia and Chins. S.W. monsoon. Very hot other at Shanghai. No telegram from anile or Hongkong for 1 a.m—State on the 19th—Fresh S, breezes. Glass rising slowly, but pressure remaining below mean.—Friday, 20th July, 10 a.m.—State of the atmosphere on the 19th The maximum of the Philippines and the minimum of Moi same places; the si jer MonsvEN pr along the whole coast. Fine and very hot weather at Shanghai.—State on the morning of the 20th.—Fog sets in about 6 am. Glass rising rather briskly, and pressure reaching mean.—Saturday, 21st July; 10 a.m.—State of the atmosphere on the 20th.—Barometer maximum spreading over the N. of the China Sea, Luzon, the Loochoos and SW. Japan,—State on th of the—Glass continu at Shanghai. Sunday, 22n1 July, 10 te of the atmosphere on the 2st. um over the N. of the China Sea and at Hongkong. Gradient inclining down from 8. to Rather deep depression to S.E. of Tokio.
for day at Shanghai,—State on the morn ing of the 22nd.—Pressure above the mean. Moderate §.E. breezes, Very hot weather.—Monday, 23r1 July, 10 a.m.—State of the atmosphere on the 22nd. The southern maximum is divided into two centr the one remaining on the N. f the Chin Ser, the other surrounding the Loochoos. Summer monsoon along the coast. Fine, but very hot weather at hanzhai.—Stae on the morning of the £6,000 for his safety. It must be jai, "low pressures over Northern China, 23rd.—Glass still falling slowly of Shang-
23rd.—Birometric maximum on the N. of the China Sea and the Loochors. Calm ther in the S. S.W. monsoon in the Fine and hot weather at shanghai, In the afternoon a whirlwind appears tv be forming near the S.E. end of Formosa.—State on the morning of the 24th.—Fine and hot weather, SW, winds, pressure above mean at Shanghai. Low pressures over N. China, Reapixes ror raz Ween.
(Thermometer in the open air in a shaded situation in the English Settlement.) 1900.
Fuhr, Thermometer. Rainfall July 18 1 2
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