NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
OBSERVANCE IN CHINA. • United Press Association —by Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Jan. 1. China to-day joined the AVestern world in the 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 and at Nanking and elsewhere. Nanking’s influence permeated an epoch-making change, and the old-fash-ioned celebration of the moon month was officially l'arewelled by tens of thousands of Western cultured Chinese last night. The view, with Europeans, Americans and other westerns celebrating the New Year, was unprecedented. Crowds jammed the streets, and in I.scores of ballrooms, cabarets and night clubs there were the wildest celebrations since the Armistice. These were accentuated from the foreigners’ viewpoint on the receipt of messages from Washington and London that these Powers are not submitting to immedi,ate cancellation of extraterritoriality.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 5
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148NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 5
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