Fr. Gherzi Explains the Phenomenon of the Steady Unbroken Cor lor of Air With the thermometer still hovering around "100° degrees Fahrenheit, [Shanghai felt no. real relief Tuesday (July 3) despite a slight drop in "temperature. Hospitals for" summer. diseases continued to report a_ tremendous influx of patients, one alone reporting 283 to a late hour that evening. From this same hospital three deaths from heat prostration were reported, considerably less than the day before.
An air current, nothing but air in fa steady stream, lowing from south~ west to north-east, fully 25,000 feet thick, is the main cause of the present heat wave that continues" to break all records for these regions Questioned by a "North-Ching Herald" representative on Wednesday Father Ghersi, 8. J, of the Siccawei Observatory, held forth no hope of fan immediate break in the temper lure. Since Monday, June. 25, the average maximum daily temperature has been 10L31 degrees Fanrenhett, which is entirely "Unprecedented in the history" of locat observation since observatories were first established here over sixty years ago. Wednesday's maximum temperature a Siceawet was 1011, while at the Cathedral it was 98°.
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