Hongkong, May 12.
Brilliant fireworks, electrical and search-light displays culminated a day of pageantry such as Hongkong has never before witnessed, "The services and parade this morning were attended by hundreds of thousands of people, including thou-sonds of Chinese visitors from Can-fon and elsewhere. Afterwards and throughout the day the streets resounded with the clanging of gongs fand Chinese music as thousands: formed processions through the streets bearing paper drogons_and other fantastically fashioned animals, As night fall the city was magically transformed into.a wonderland of Ughts, with the whole waterfronts of
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