Yesterday; Many Sleep In Open Air Electric ventilators were dusted off and winter clothes were tucked away in moth bags yesterday, when the maximum temperature of the year was registered at Holy Trinity eral with 98 degrees. Thirst quenching drinks and ice creams found a ready clientele whilst the populace was more inclined to transplant homes and workshops to the side-walks where a slight breeze made illings somewhat more comfortable than inside the houses, w-pullers stripped to the waist and began to wear sandals to protect their feet from the heat reflected from the roadway, whilst many Chinese residents bought bamboo mats in an endeavour to make the hot nights more passable.
Bars and restaurants did a roaring trade, whilst for the first time this year the city's various swimming pools were registering a record number of patrons. Attendance at parks increased towards the evening, whilst all streets were crowded with Chinese pedestrians who preferred to take some exercise in the somewhat cooler open-air prior to turning in for the night. As during the last summer, those wishing to spend their nights on the streets will find it rather difficult in view of the curfew regulations being enforced and it is thus that alleyways are almost unpassable for pillows which serve many of Shang-ead-out bamboo mats and wooden
hal's thousands as a resting during the summer. The mosque nuisance, whilst already in evidence dor some time, became more apparent as ladies did away with stockings and "men rolled down their socks in an effort to diminish the effects of the heat.
Ice hongs were overflowed with orders yesterday and the city as a whole gave way to King Sol as it has done in previous years and hoped that soon the pleasant autumn weather would be here again.
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