Chungking, Apr. 10.
Today the populace of Chungking broke out into wild celebrations of the continued reports of Chinese successes on the Tsinpu railway front. For a time they had faithfully observed the sobering warning contained in Generalissimo Chiang Kalshek's circular telegram to the nation not to rejoice until the final victory was won, but today they could restrain themselves no longer.
Firecrackers began being shot into the sky at dawn and continued throughout the day. The principal streets of the city hung grey with smoke all day as the crackers exploded overhead in' endless success sion. Laughing crowds were out watching and cheering and greeting each other, while daring youngsters added to the excitement by diving into the roadways at the risk of their lives to retrieve any unexploded squibs that fell ready for the taking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.