LITTLE FERVOUR.
CHINESE CELEBRATION.
DISTRESS IN PEKING.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPH—COPYRIGHT.) PBKINGf November 12. The anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's birthday, which was recently 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 the Kuomintang colours, and a crowd of about 6000 attended an open-air meeting, at which inspiring speeches were made by 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, who heretofore have lived in comfortable circumstances have been reduced almost to pauperism as a result of the transfer of the capital to Nanking, and they now are largely preoccupied with the problem of scraping somehow through what threatens to be an exceedingly hard winter for the bulk of the population. —"The Times" Cables.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19467, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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