Judging from Monday's behaviour it Tooks as if any attempt that the summer may make to assert its nonce on Shanghai will be vigorously resisted by the aggressiveness of autumn. Nor will that conflict inspire sympathy for the apparent victim Whose ministrations had became 4 little irritating in the early weeks of September. Fears that the sharp drop in temperature last Thursday would not preclude a return to torrid days seem to be in prospect of discipation. It is true that the rain on Monday was accompanied by an apparent slight rise in. temperaturo—subject to. the considered judgment of the thermometer. Yet the impression persisted that, after such a definite surrender to the advance guard of Autumn, Summer would have to be unusually stubborn to be able to disturb Shanghailanders' equanimity in. the remaining days nominally left at ts disposal.
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