HARD WINTER.
PEKING'S PLIGHT.
Removal Of Capital To Nanking Spells Ruin.
BLEAK OUTLOOK,
("Times" Cables.)
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
PEKING, November 12
The anniversary of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birthday, which has recently been added to the rapidly growing list of Chinese national holidays, was celebrated with a display of official enthusiasm here to-day when the city was decked with Kuomintang colours.
A crowd of about 6000 attended au open-air meeting and inspiring speeches were made by the Kuomintang leaders.
Despite the strenuous efforts of the Kuomintang propaganda experts, no great amount of popular fervour was noticeable, for which the prevailing business depression and the unusually cold weather were probably jointly responsible.
Thousands of families who heretofore lived in fairly comfortable circumstances have been reduced almost to pauperism as the result of the transfer of the capital to Nanking, and are now largely preoccupied with the problem of somehow scraping through what threatens to be an exceedingly hard winter for the bulk of the population
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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