Annual Celebrations Observed by Chinese in Nantao Dense crowds lined the various! streets in the Chinese City on Saturday: to witness one of the Digest processions in the season, the procession in honour of the City God, an annual affair on Ching Ming, lunar festival which fell yesterday this year.
The procession started from the. City "Temple at 1 pin. and passed all the principal streets in the Chinese City before it broke up at the same place. Headed by persons beating gongs and four others holding large silk flags, the procession consisted of several hundred Chinese, many of whom rode horses, others held incense-burners hung' from sticks, and still others played Chinese musical instruments. All" were gorgeously embroidered gowns made red or blue satins.
Tt took over two hours for the procession to pass one spot and ficers of the Public Sefety Bureat had a dificult time in regulating the trafic which wae held up for a con siderable time.
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