CHINA CELEBRATES
ALTER AT (lON OF THE YEAR. (United Press Association. —By Electrir Telegraph.—Copyright.; (Received this day at LI a.m./ SHANGHAI, Jan. 1. China to-day joined the Western World in the observance of New Year’s Day, having the decreed abolition of tlie ancient Lunar calendar and the adoption of the western system. A mammoth programme of festivities was carried out locally, at Nanking, and elsewhere. Nanking’s influence permeated the celebration of the epoch making change. The oldfashioned moon month was officially farewelled by tens of thousands of western cultured Chinese, who last night vied with Europeans, Americans and other westerners in celebrating the New Year.,
Pnurecedented crowds jammed the streets and in scores of ball rooms and cabarets and night clubs there were the wildest celebrations since the Armistice'.
These were accentuated from the foreigners’ viewpoint on receipt of messages from Washington and London that these Powers were not submitting to the immediate cancellation of the extra territoriality.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 5
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