INSPIRING TALK FAILS TO ROUSE CHINESE
SUN YAT SEN HOLIDAY OBSERVED OFFICIALLY AT STRICKEN PEKING 'fimes Cable. Received 10.39 a.m. LONDON. Monday. The Peking correspondent of “The ’’Times" says that the anniversary of Sun Yat Sen’s birthday, which recently rvas added to the rapidlygrowing list of Chinese National holidays, was celebrated with a display of official enthusiasm here to-day, when the city was decked with the Kuomintang colours, and a crowd of about 6.000 attended an open-air meeting at which inspiring speeches were made by Kuomintang leaders. Despite the strenuous efforts of Kuomintang propaganda -experts, flo great amount of popular fervour was noticeable, a circumstance for which tile prevailing business depression and unusually cold weather were probably jointly responsible. Thousands of families who heretofore had lived fairly comfortably have been reduced almost to pauperism as a result of the transfer of the capital to Nanking, and they are now largely preoccupied with the problem of scraping somehow through what threatens to be an exceedingly hard winter for the bulk of the population.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 13
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