SUN YAT SEN
ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH. CELEBRATIONS IN* PEKIN. Pekin, November 12. The anniversary of 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 6,000 attended the open air meeting at which 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 are jointly responsible. Thousands who have heretofore lived fairly comfortably have been reduced almost to pauperism as the result of the transfer of the capital to Nanking, and they are now largely preoccupied with the problem of scraping somehow 7 through what threatens to l>e an exceedingly hard winter for the bulk of the population.—Times Cable.
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Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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156SUN YAT SEN Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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