Mercury moves in Aquarius and Pisces. Being in Superior Conjunction with ihe Sun on the 8th, it is neither morning nor evening star in the first part of the month. Eastern elongation is on April 2, and there will be an opportunity of' seeing the "planet by naked eye after sunset in the last. week of the month. Magnitude—1 to—15. Sets on 16th at 64i p.m.; on Sist at 743 p.m.
Venus is now an evening star, moving in Aquarius and Pisces, but visible o a short time. It passes the equator on the "14th, and is in conjunction "with, on ist at 6.24 pin. on the 16th at 6.51 Saturn on the 18th. Magnitude:—34. Sets on ist at 624 p, on the 16th at 0,51 Pim: on the sist at 7.19 p.m.
Mare is an evening star setting soon after 9 pin. in the west-northwest, It moves in Pisces, the Fishes, and "Aries he Ram, Sets on let at 9b pin; om 16th at 993 p.m.
Jupiter "rises" east-southeast rather more than an hour before the Sun. Tt moves in the constellation Capricornus. Stellar magnitude—15 to—1.6. Rises on: Ist at 523 am. on 16th at 434 am.
Saturn sets "in ihe early evening, about the end of twilight. Tt is in Conjunction with the Sun on the 29th. Sets on Ist at 748 p.m.: on Jth at 656 pin.
Uranus sets in me late evening, and will be Visible only in the Western sky Sets on Ist at 1042 p.m. on 16th at 946 pam. on Sist at 845 pin.
constellation Leo, Being in opposition Neptune moves retrograde in the with the Sun om the the Ith it wil be visible the whole night, but it is too faint to be visible to the naked exe: stellar magnitude 7 to 8. A good opera-glass will show it, and it may be distinguished irom a'star by the fact that it does not twinkle. All planets have this peculiarity except when near the horizon. In a large "telescope. its greenish disc is readily perceived but no marks have been seen upon it. Rises on 2nd at 636 pin; sets on isth at Manchuria in which the kidnapping of a foreigner has ended fatally. The other twelve captured since 1931 had escaped, been released or been rescued through efforts made or directed by the Japanese Gendarmie or Military Police.
It must be realized that during the period of Father Donovan's captivity, there were few military units available for the rescue of a single foreigner. In justice it should be noted that the ratio of one life lost amongst thirteen foreigners taken much better than the figures for Japanese who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of outlaws. From official circles we learn that the number so taken has been large and the percentage of deaths very high.
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