Says "Lo Courier Saigonnais" im a recent issue:—The year 1923 will perhaps see a good vintage but it seems it will be a year too of abundant earthquakes. The Abbot Moreux, in his "Review Scientifica,"' says:—The last. months of 1922 and the first of this year have witnessed several earthquakes. y have taken place at Manila, Ariege, Perpignan and more notably so, in America. The Abott prophesies a series of cataclysm from seismic upheavals in Japan, the Antilles, Mexico and perhaps in Turkestan. The Mich, in France, will also, he says, experience shocks but, happily of a less disastrous nature. The Director of the Observatory at Bourges anent the subject writes:—Solar activity is the main cause of the scientific declarations made by Abbot Moreux. It is this factor which augments or diminishes the electrical charges in the terrestrial atmosphere and provokes expansion or contract
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