so far with a lack of typhoons this Though Shanghai has been blessed mortally wounded after being shot by A. Chinese. bomb-thrower was.
Summer, the absence of these annual an Annamite constable while t. cyclonic visitors has its accompany-1o flight after hurling a hand grenade ing disadvantages es it is this factor at a Russian member of the which is belg held responsible by. police in an alleyway off Route Pere local meteorologists for the present Robert early yesterday morning. unusual amount-of rainfall More Qn the pretext of selling melons the surprising than the persistence of the bomb-thrower and a companion gain is the fact that the end of the son, usually set for the middle knocked at the door of a house in an alley off Route de Sieyes, "When is now two weeks overdue. the door was opened they entered 11 "weather usually experienced premises and ctitting "open three in Shanghai during the summer melons produced'a grenade which had months includes periodical typhoons. been concealed in one of them. In between these typhoons are in-Instead of responding to their d tervals of fine and hot weather. But mands "for money, tenants wer this year, the weatherman has played a freakish trick on the people in this {ed the unwelcome visitors to alarmed and screamed which prom region; the lack of typhoons produces an unceasing period of tropical weather with' continual rainfall. to flight.
Russian member of the French police on duty"
Bainfall Reaches 40 Inches As for the amount of rain which has fallen in Shanghai, it i" interestimg to note that the rainfall from January 1 up to the present has reached the excessive figure of 40 inches—more than 12 inches above the average figure for the past 68 ship of tHe Annamite brought down years. Of this 40 inches, this month one of the fugitives who was rushed has been responsible for more than to the St. Marie Hospital where he 12 inches. succumbed to his wounds.
According to the Zikawei Observatory, the mean figüres for rainfall during the month of July are of little value. The rainfall at this time of the year is so erratic that it is possible for the amount of rain for one
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