State on the morning of the 17t High to normal and steady pressure over Japan, Korea and east China. Low in the south-west. Fresh south-easterly to south westerly monsoon winds along the Ching "Coast. Cloudy, fine and hot With showers in er in China,
Cloudy, fne and hot weather. Sout ate on the morning of the 18t) easterly winds. High and steady pres Probabilities, 420 p.m. yesterday Cloudy and hot weather with thundery showers and north-ea: terly to southeasterly winds around—Shantung. Cloudy. hot and rather fine with easterly io southerly winds or breezes in the Yangtze Valley: local thunder in the evening. Cloudy with moderate southeasterly monsoon over the Eastern Se: with Veriable winds around Formosa.—Siccawei Observatory,
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