During the evening, Hongkew particularly presented a lovely: pieture ut Little Japan, On many of rests which are occupied prin-by Japanese, all the build-Tnges were decorated with red and white festoons, while Janterns in these colours were hung along the kerb, Woosung Road was ablaze with lanterns, while in Boone Road and the other streets of the neigh-ceremony was taking place in Japan the same time.
An athletic meet took place at Hongkew Park during Saturday morning, at which the most popular feature was Japanese wrestling contest Sunday evening, 20,000 Japat ese and their friends gathered Hongkew Park to witness the most Interesting lantern procession Shanghai had ever seen. There was veritable sea of red and white lanterns, The spectator saw only golden light, dancing in the tance and then the procession tioned closer and faces, haps cheerful faces of Tungwen Univer-Sity students and Japanese men and tvomen, each carrying a lantern and AM! shouting, "Banzai!" "Banzai The Tangwen University band led the procession. Round and round Hongkew park it marched. And now and then, some wondrous fire works would be shot into the sky.
golden and silver shower of apes; red and green Tights hanging from parachutes, driven hither and thither by the wind, yet always immerings sings of fire, stars of Bre, mere flashes of light—and then nothing but the sea of lan~ teriis, the moving, turning, never ending circles of lanterns.
In the bandstand, the Suffolk Regimental Band played the tunes of the West, while on a screen in the open, Charlie Chaplin amused oh and' young with "Shoulder Arms."" But always, eyes moved from band and screen and turned to the leaden sky for a new flame of fire, the roar of a rocket, the smell of gunpowder and as an acccompanyment to it all, the lanterns The picture was Japanese—a sy phony of colour even in Hongkew Park at night.
The mere outline of events does not in any way convey the spirit of the Japanese celebration of the enthronement. The Japanese Shanghai sought not a mere display fof patriotism, but rather to bring to. themselves somewhat of the spirit and the events which were the very moment taking place in vote. and Tokyo and in every city which ench in-vidual Japanese here originally conception of the cele-one of actually participating in the enthronement, part of the highly idealistic con Ception of the position of the Emperor in the Japanese political ard facial system, Each invidual sought tot only to celebrate but to con-mate to. the enthronement, just in Japan, the whole nation shouts Banzai." simultaneously with the Premier.
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