Hankow, Jan. 29.
Despite the appalling amount of suffering, death and destruction caused by the Sino-Japanese hostilities, Hankow, as elsewhere in China, is busily making preparations to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which has been Observed throughout the coun for 4,000 years, during the coming weekend.
Whether poor or rich, every faraily is looking forward to the dinner on Sunday, Chinese New Years eve, when all Chinese return to their homes and celebrate a reunion with their families and wish each other prosperity in the coming year.
Signs of Chinese new year festly ties are noticeable everywhere in Hankow at present. Even barber shops have put up notices stating: "According to the traditional practice, hair-cut prices will be doubled during the Chinese new year period from January 25 to February 5." and consistent imperialist, Lord Atholstan was actively identified with all the great imperialistic and patrio-tie movements in the Dominion for the past half century and more. He was the first journalist in Canada io demand the sending of Canadian troops to South Africa when the Boer War broke out in October, 1899, and years before the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, he called for Canadian contributions to the British Navy in the North Sea.
He was one of the first to advocate Imperial preferential trade as a policy and lent strong support through papers to the Empire Trade Conference at Ottawa in proud of the name of journalist and in 1910 was vice-president df the Institute of Journalists of Great Britain, having the year before been chairman of ihe Canadian delegation to the Imperial Press Conference in London.
In 1920 as chairman of the Canadian Committee of the Imperial Press Conference which met at Ottawa he came prominently before the public of the whole Empire. To his organizing genius and tireless energy were due the success of the conference -and of the memorable tour of the pressmen through the Dominion.
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