Arrival at Wenchow: Tendency to Travel Northwest to the Yangtze Shanghai was in no immediate danger on Tuesday from the typhoon announced by Siccawei to be approaching our coasts.
At 110.30 in the morning it was signalled to be travelling towards Wenchow) but the warning gun was not fired, the typhoon being too far off fo endanger shipping around the Yangtze mouth. Very rough weather, however, in the estuary throughout the day was reported.
By 4.30 in the afternoon the barometer at Siccawei had fallen nearly one-tenth of an inch since the same hour on Monday, when it stood at 29.72 in. The pressure was 29.69 in. at Siccawei at 9 a.m. yesterday, after which it made an appreciable fall. By tiffin time the mercury had descended to 29.63 in. At five o'clock, when rieshas on The Bund were being blown about by a wind that was increasing hourly in force, the barometer was down to 29.62 and still dropping.
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