CHINESE NATIONALISTS

Evening Star, Issue 20022, 13 November 1928, Page 6

CHINESE NATIONALISTS

SUN YAT-SEH REMEMBERED PEKING HOT ENTHUSIASTIC Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, November 12. (Received November 13, at 12.30 p.m.) Tbc anniversary of Dr Sun Yat-sen’* birthday, which Was recently added to the rapidly-growing list of Chinese national holidays, was celebrated with a display of official enthusiasm here today. 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 mad© by the Euomintang leaders. Despite the strenuous efforts of the Kuonuntang 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 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 he an exceedingly hard winter for the hulk of the ,—London ‘limes 1 Cabl.*