NEW CALENDAR IN CHINA
EPOCH-MAKING ALTERATION
WILDNESS OF CELEBRATIONS
CROWDS UNPRECEDENTED
By Telegraph.—Press Assoel tlon. Shanghai, Jan. 1.
China to-day joined the western world in the observance of New dear’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 the epoch-making change. The old-fashioned moon month was officially farewelled by tens of thousands of western cultured Chinese last night. They 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 were accentuated from the foreigners’ viewpoint by the receipt of messages from Washington and London that these Powers are not submitting to the immediate cancellation of extra-territoriality.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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