CHINA’S NEW YEAR
WESTERN SYSTEM ADOPTED mm MONTH FAREWELLED Pmi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, January 1. (Received January 2, at 9.50 a.m.) China to-day joined the Western world in observance of New Year’s Day, having decreed the abolition of the 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 this epochmaking change. The old-fashioned 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. Unprecedented crowds jammed the streets, and in scores of ballrooms, cabarets, and night clubs there were the wildest celebrations since the armistice. These accentuated from foreigners in view’ of the receipt of messages from Washington and London that those Powers would not submit to the immediate cancellation of extraterritorialty.
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Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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150CHINA’S NEW YEAR Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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