(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Feb. 11. I met a lady from Australia yesterday who had not been i England for 30 years and asked her how she was enduring our bleak grey skies.
"Enduring them," she exclaimed "Tra loving them, you can" think what a relief it is to get away from that awful sun."
Which just shows how little we appreciate our blessings. Yet I remember the most trying summer I ever spent was, not in Shanghai but in Rome, when from May till mid-September the unclouded skies seemed to turn to brass. I knew an Italian artist who deliberately chose to live in England for the sake of our e soft grey skies.
But this year the skies have been over-doing it, with the bitter cold, and, ohe night, a most unusual phenomenon, frozen rain. Actually It fell as rain, but with the frost cntinuing all the time, it froze directly it touched ground. You can imagine the effect on roads and pavements. The electric train service went out ûf operation at once owing to the thick coat of ice on the live rail.
A Fleet Street. friend who lives in Kent, ordinarily about 20 minutes journey from Charing Cross, left London one night at 8 o'clock and reached home at 230 a.m. This was quite in the ordinary course of thi As for long-distance travellers, you probably heard of the travellers who started southwards from Glasgow on kawam and were snowed up in umberiand fill the following Wednesday. They couldn't get on and they couldn't get out,
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