Throughout the morning, officials and residents will throng the Japanese Consulate-General to pay respect to the portraits of the Emperor and Empress and drink toasts to Their Majesties out of chrysanthemum-embossed cups, A description of the nigh celebrations in the Hongkew district will be flashed to millions of listeners in Japan by announcers of station JOAK Tokyo, Tell to be Tolled Beginning at 11.59 to-night, the tolling of the huge Hanshan Temple bell in Soochow will be broadcast to Japan, its sonorous sound providing a deep undertone for the tolling bells of temples throughout Japan.
General Iwane Matsui and Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, respectively commanding the land and naval forces in Central China, will greet the people of Japan row over JOAK microphones.
A novel feature of the celebrations here will be the tolling of the new half-ton bronze bell, installed in the belfry of the Higashi Hongan Temple, Wuchang Road, earlier this week.
A minute before Shanghai greets the advent of the new year and the passing of the old, the bell will begin tolling its message of peace and goodwill, the Japanese daily said.
Residents first heard the bell at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when it was tolled in a "dress rehearsal to-night's performance, Cast in Kyoto at the coast of Y.L500, the bell commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Buddhist Temple,
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