CHINESE CHANGE THEIR NEW YEAR.
WESTERN CALENDAR IS NOW OBSERVED. (United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received January 2, 9.50 a.m.) SHANGHAI, January 1. China to-day joined the Western world in the observance of New Year’s Day, having decreed the abolition of the i ancient lunar calendar, and the adoption of the W r estern system. A mammoth programme of festivities was carried out in Shanghai, Nanking and elsewhere. Nanking’s Influence permeated the celebration. The epoch-making change from the old-fashioned moon month was officially farewelled by tens of thousands. The Chinese last night view with Europeans, Americans and other Westerners in celebrating the New Year. Unprecedented crowds jammed the streets and in scores of ball-rooms, cabarets and night clubs there were the wildest celebrations since the Armistice. These were accentuated from the foreigner’s viewpoint, by receipt of messages from Wellington and London stating that these Powers were not submitting to the immediate cancellation of extra-territorial-ity.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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