Hankow has throbbed for the last night or two with the continafous beating of drama and- gongs in connexion with the celebration of the Lantern Festival by the labour unions, which this year are showing unprecedented enthusiasm over the event.
Thousands of persons participated in the picturesque lantern. parades, which were extremely well organized and which appear hitherto to have assed off without disorder.
'Yesterday afternoon the spirit-of {the carnival found grotesque express slop ing mock funeral procession maunning' the loss of British. "Impenalism." The coffin was carried through the streets by a section of the British Cigarette Company's yorkers, musicians meanwhile play-_ a funeral dirge, which, according to some foreign spectators, sounded like a Chinese attempt at "Ye banks and braes."
On q scroll carried in the process sion was inscribed "Throw the British from Shanghai Ancodd feature of the pamphlets distributed in connexion with the Procession in place of paper cash was that the Tight wing of the! Kuomintang was mentioned asa mourner along with Marshal Wa Pei-fu, Marshal Chang Tao-lin, Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and other anti-Fevolutionarles.—Reuter.
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