The Archive · 1933

SHANGHAI'S TEMPERATURE

Published daily at the foot of thi Column, Zikawel's figures (publi fed on the back page) have #0 often fcen"higher In both, maximum and minimum, that some indignation has Been exetsablehow often, haw ie teemed felt that yesterday's "high rust have at feast been 100 degrees or more. 'Thus folk have nooffed a Zikawel's, 97 or at the 'North-China's" "modest 94, The North-China" meteorological "me strements' are housed. inca box Standing in the open and well away from trees and. buildings in" the Cathedral." compound. "They are and checked frequently. by "the read dally bythe Cathedral star verity their accuracy, test dudly Tent by Meese, Hirsbrumnet &"Co,, have" recently been used. to. cheek their readings, which have been found exact... Analysis of recent readi minima are' considerably higher fand Tower on the They read est degree Par: highest temp." highest temp. Sept. lowest temp.

This shows that in the contre of Settlement there. is. five oF six degrees less variation in the daily. temperature than at Zikawei, owing ings. For more than sixty" ye these temperatures. have been recorded in the "North-China Herald" from about the same spot, and they form the only" continuous record of Shanghai's weather during that varying period, Capt. Hsu Tsu-shan, High Com missioner of the Weikaiwel Muni cipal Government, has wired to Mr. Wang Ching-wei, tendering bia resignation. Capt. Hsu has "been in Weihaiwei almost three years and his administration has "beer considered very satisfactory oth the Chinese and the foreign communities,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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