At the moment Shanghai is disposed to throw the blame for Its woes on all Kinds of people. This or that nation, this or that body and this for that dignitary In turn becomes the cockshy for vituperative eloquence. "Yet all the time there Ie one culprit. who. is smugly evading jstiAable wrath. 'This slate' of things cannot continue. The unmasking must come. August }24'was the day of the end of the Great Heat. The fact did not pose unnoticed. If ships were for dressed in port, at least this Journal saluted Chu Shu with as graceful a leaderette as could composed. in the intervals of wondering whether there would be enough lee For some body's gin. What did Siccawei do? It promptly proceeded to treat the thermometer as if it were 'Mesigned 10 earn the Lawrence Cup for' fast century scoring. On Aug. 25. the maximum Temperature in the shade was 083, a compared with 910 in the same day in 1896. The sub-Seqitent records were worse: sept all very well for Siccawei to imagine]
Shanghat_ is) too preoccupied to notice faugression of this kind." Mention will not be made of the humidity for as has been within few points of saturation mark hindustan Jone would do justice to the state of feelings [desirable ts for Siccawei to be remi fsenctty of pacts. 'Surely the end of the Great Heat marks' solemn pact for the preservation the integrity of the human temper. How con [Shanghai be expected to comport itself peacefully when the mercury is permitted to display such "distressingly provocative' anti-human tendencies? Cannot Prince Konoye mine ote fof his appropriate speeches om the subject bring relief to Shanghai?
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