To the Editor of the "Norru-Cumma Dary News"
Sin—In Hongkong, the Government annually proclaims Chi-ese New Yea's day a public holiday, and nowhere else wil! you find the people keeping. this greatest of all their age-old festivals with more enthusiasm end untrammelled enjoyment, Everybody works by the Gregorian calendar, but the British have the happy knack of never allowing any adaptation of this sort which is foreign to the people to interfere with their good old customs anc traditions.
"At one time it looked as if the observance of Chincca New Year was} dying out in this great cosmopolitan ity of Shanghai. But the New Year Ushered in at the beginning of this week has witnessed a remarkable revival which was quite affecting to those who love to srs the Chinese keep up their good old customs. The writer remembers Chinese New Year Shanghai when aot a soul was. to be seen in the streets on the morning of the ist!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.