This year in Wusih, as elsewhere the new calendar was enforced, an theoretically foreign New Year" too the place of Chinese New Yea The shops were closed by the polled on New Year's Day. A committes to encourage the observance of the new calendar erected four Mumm ated arches at conspicuous points in the city, and posted free of charge 1,000,000 New Year scrolls fon the doors of homes and shops Previously these scrolls were par-from. Fortune-tellers by, desiring to insure good luck to their families during the New, Year, so it must have been a pleasant surprise to the household" ers to awake" to. find good luck sentiments adorning their. house," with the initial good Ick of not having to pay for then, Although sentiment "in private homes favoured the observance of the old time festival, the fact that the schools closed, thus sending the children home, precipitated invotane tary family reunions, and resulted 4 general observance of the new, New Year.
Tt has been long since so little inti-foreign fooling has been evident frontier there are no signs of Reds. And you can go from Shiuchow day through the mountain pass to Tayu, a border town in Kiangsi perfect safety. However, they carte not guarantee that he who continues further will ever return. For there are Reds still in between Tayu and Komcho. The latter city is said ta be still held by a force of Kiangst troops, but they.are holding Kons chow only, which is surrounded by, radicals every which way.
Latest government—telegrams describing the movement of Kuang tung's army operating in Kiangst give as the object ~the heading off of the moving columns of Reds before they gob into the fastnessed of Fukien, Both sides are on thd go, but the government leaderd hope to get in Between the Red: and the Fukien frontier and then give them the thrashing of the
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