We have been treated to a taste of what Peking feels like when dust-storms from the Gobi Desert visit the old capital. For the past two days, a terrific storm has been blowing over Tokyo and the neighbourhood, the gale being accompanied clouds of fine ye mow-brown dust believed to have been borne here on the wind from the Gobi Desert.
This dust was, of course, with generous quantities of Jo) ese dust, of which there has Leen an unprecedented amount here this year, owing to the extremely dry yet very cold winter, The strange glare in the sky when the sun's rays were reflected on the dost-clouds Urought anxious re sts from various parts of th country ax to whether another had smitten Tokyo and ike appearance of the Tieavens was the reflection of the burning. The phenomenon als. had its superstitious side ud the temples were crowed with ious the deities were particularly a Frehensive lest fires should bre out, for with such a gale the' destruction would the more so since Tokyo and neighbourhood are parched while there is in addition a pressing Inck of water. Nothing portentous, however, occurred and there were no major disasters.
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