To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cuixa Dany News"
Sm~Doubtless many others besides myself have this Summer received letters ar newspaper-clippings bewailing "heat waves" in England.
When 80° in the shade is reached in England the effect (owing to lack of suitable clothes, fans, ete.) is most distressing and ihe sufferers have my full sympathy. Fortunately,—how-fever, such hot spells are usually of short duration and finish up with cooling thunderstorm.
Here in Shanghai, however, it has been consistently hot for the past three months each day hot enough to constitute a "heat wave" in dear old, England.
I think tt would be of interest to your readers if you could see your way to spare a column to publish the maximum shade temperature (alongside with the humidity about which we love to boast) day by day from Sune 15 to September 15. This Would give us "something to write Home about" and we could authentic sure our long sufferings with 3 clipping from your veracious journ:
Some among your readers would probably preserve such a record to Droduce when, old, doddery and retired elsewhere, they wish to substantiate their "Nothing to. what. it was like in Shanghai in '35."
Shanghai, Sept, 10.
"Perhaps the following table of the daily humidity and maximum tempera lures readings for the months of Sune, July and August will meet this require:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.