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OBSERVATION IN CHINA FROM GROUND AND PLANE. SKY CLEAR THROUGHOUT. ■(Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) CHUNGKING, September 22. _ The Associated Press of America s correspondent states that astronomers in Lantai, in the Kansu Province, say that the sky was clear throughout the total eclipse. Ten reels of motion pictures were taken, some from an aeroplane. The corona is said to have been elongated east to west rather than in a true circle. The Chinese beat gongs and shot off fire-crackers in honour of the ancient custom of driving off the legendary wild dog that was attempting to devour the sun.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 5
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