On The Bund, lines of coloured Jenterns and fugs stretched from Xluklang Road corner to Hankow oad comer og the Central Bank and the Bank of Communications up their buildings at night. The Commercial Bank of China, a fow blocks away, and the Bank of China ut the corner of Szechuen and Han-Kow Roads, - were also. illuminated with coloured lights and lanterns.
Nanking Road was ablaze with unusually brilliant lights, as business houses vied with each other in dis-laying messages of geetings, one of which, in huge characters made up of innumerable electric lights, spread over the frontage of the eighteen-storey Wing On Annexe from top to bottom, dazzling pedestrians in the vicinity of Chekiang and Nanking Roads throughout the evening. A few blocks away, the China United Assurance building bore the Chinese national flag in coloured lamp bulbs. The Park Hotel, further to the west, was covered with coloured lanterns.
In prominent positions in many display windows, the portrait of General Chiang Kai-shek and the char-deter" "Shou", meaning longevity, were mounted. The decorations la the main windows of the department Stores in Nanking Road attracted crowds of spectators, The entrance ff one group of-shops was lined with evergreen. Lanterns, of different shapes, were to be seen along Nan-King Road and apart of Bubbling Well Road and other streets, Amazed Thousands
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