Month's Postponement Favoured by Mayor of Shanghai 'An important suggestion has been made by Gen. Chang Chun, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, to the Legislative Yuan in' Nanking apropos of the order issued by the National Government for the adoption of the Gregorian calendar fu place of the lunar calendar. Gen. Chang recommends that the enforcement of the order should be postponed until the end of January next year, Gen. Chang's letter to the Legislative Yuan follows:
"In accordance with a memorial submitted by the Commissioner of Social Affairs for Grenter Shanghai, it is now too late to enforce the order for the observance of the Gregorian calendar on January 1, 1930, and it is suggested that it should not be enforced until th end of that month. The Commi sioner of Social Affairs suggests that, after the enforcement of the new calendar, the year should be divided into three periods, from January to May, from June to September, and from October to December. In former day' Chinese merchants closed their ae-counts three times a year, on Dragon Bent Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and at the end of each lunar year. When the Gregorian dates are enforced, the merchants will experience' 10 difficulty in closing their acco because they will have the three settlement days at the end of the three periods mentioned.
"The main vensons' why the three periods should end on the last days of May, September and December, respectively, are that the farmers complete seriewltural work and harvest their crops at the end of May, that the rice crops will be ripe at the end of September, and that the merchants may close their accounts at the end each period. The latter should be allowed to collect their accounts as has been the practice in the the suggestions are both good and practicable and I" have no hesitation in asking you to request the National Government to issue a proclamation ordering the merchants throughout the country to fallin with the Commissioner's suggestions and to enforce the new calendar as from the end of January next." chauffeurs by physical means. Uv to the time of arrival of the police the hire ear drivers were the better pugilists.
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