Four Day. Celebration at Szechuen Capital Old Residents Honotired by Community Front Our Own Comncsroxpent Fuom Ock OWN Cosnesronoen?
Chengtu Oct. 22, Tehang, Oct, 16.
The "Double Tenth" Anniversary stil in progress ere. Te has Goveloped- into a fourday_celeretion, or to speak more correctly, a} Gemontration, 'There': han been Serv ite. said about Independenee Day. in speeches or" newspapers fide from "Fan Ri chin Hwa" Oppose Japan and' Save' China" The "Doable-Tenth™ fect, Satur: riy, was given over to tne grea des tg remember it a1 a "Day
cally posted that there was Shame. "Orers had nen, absence of red bunting driving celebration, that, other. colours Tighe be used" jp decoration, bat of the colour of "rejlcing", How: rer the down-twen. busloess, see {ion of the sity, and the route parades were well" decorated with millions' of paper "coloured reamers and, Intdrmatonal fags From "which that of Japan waa fearfully deleted. Great white [streamers crossed the main thoroughfares bearing the legend noted above. in four lange black fcharacters—"Oppose Japan, save China", One met this everywhere. [Batches of boy and girl students were omnipresent with gails of pas-Yad te, brushes and oceans of posters {in all colours, with the came and kindred legends cursing Japan. They were stuck up everywhere. Shop windows, shatters, telegraph poles, rieshas and motor cars all ore the marks of the intensive and extensive siege of handbills and Posters in flaming colours and abu sive language. The atmosphere was electric with hate. Hours of flam-Doyant speeches. were hurled into aco, from a huge platform in the] Manchu City, and multitudes miller about all morning until the parades got under way. Then the three Armies of the three Marshals, here led the procession; over one hundred societies took part, and be again most of the twenty thousand students of the Capital city were Jon, the march with blood-curdling yells "and songs of defiance. If 'Japan could be defeated with noise, fears es and demonstrations, "she would have been out of business by' this time.
The Consul General of Japan has been in retirement with friends, and the Consulate padlocked. How: ever yesterday he received orders {from his home office to leave Chengtu, and one suspects he is not sorry While the summer months may ave been extraordinarily wet, the compensation has been avery fine fantumn,. Since the beginning of September very tittle rain has fall fen, anda gradual decline inthe etperature'has made life enjoy able. AS far as. Toba cerned the only evidence. of the tosa et, sammes, ie to be of Maria, "When lared an infected port, Cholera being prevalent there, the local Cas toms' authorities, inthe absence of any: properly constituted "Health Authority, made arrangements" to zy and prevent any spread of the disease ¢ this area, and all steame fers from Hankow are inspected. before entering the harbour" So, far Been met with, eases suggestive of Cholera have years ala port Ishang enjoyed:
For the fat tne in its ty odd Unique' function when on" Gotober 13 the whole foreign community met in the grounds of the British" Con-slate do hangar to Mr and Sts, andrew Ross on the occasion of thei Silver" Wedding, Twenty four years ago Mr, and Mrs, Ross cane Tehang, and during all the yo since that time they have by their Kindliness and-open hospitality endeared themselves to all with whom wey have come. in contact, and. many parts of the world there ate those who will ever have a kindly thought forthe deservedly popula and beloved representatives of the incely House." After ten ser on the lawn Me. Wallis, B.A. Consul called' on Miss Moore, who has spent 5 ears in charg, make the presentation of a. sivail token expressive of the their friends, 'Tu 'a few apt words Miss Moore sffered them eongratal: ations on the attainment of their 26th anniversary and asked them to accept a liver" fruit "stand og, a memento of the occasion." Mr. Roa gon behalf' of his wige and. hinnoe weir My yaPeech thanked Rian re and the many friends assem: bed "for. their Kind "gift. Inthe evening Mr._and Mra, Hess were A home i tele own house" where Sind where ino Teas dermal june?
ry jolly evening was apout, they were toasted and. thanked for all their' many" Kindnesses to. the Passing guest no Tess than to the more permanent resident,
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