The Generalissimo undoubtedly senses this feeling and is playing up Discipline in fas well, is certainly improving. The manta for imposing a new tax every other day has been abruptly cures—for the moment at any rate, Old forms and. ceremonies are si gain honoured and there is 'a strong inclination to." re-establish old standards, which takes an amusing form sometimes. During the pa year for instance we have had edi yrainst bobbed hair, short skirts, the of the colloquial in writing, and kissing scenes in cinemas. Such regulations are not enforced; they are to be interpreted as gestures only, indicative of the northern official state of mind to. much the same degree as the far-famed naked ladies' parade in Hankow was of the Rosso-Chinese state of mind in the "Nationalist" world last year. Now word has gone forth from the Dictator's residence that some of the republican holidays will not be observed but that the old traditional holidays will be officially recognized again. This year the Government offices cloned for six days (including Sunday) at New Year and the holiday was much more rigidly observed than at any time since the abdication of the Manchus; Lantern Day fest casion for another official holiday in which even the Chinese banks joi although the foreign banks remained open.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.