HHankow, Jan, 31.
'All Chinese Government offices remained open to-day despite the fact that it was Chinese Now Your, a day' observed throughout China for con~ furles as the year's biggest event, 'The Sinowapanese war, howe' stripped the celebrations of their Picturesque setting, the usual lantern parades, dragon dance and specta-tuler fireworks being conspicuously fsbsent, New Year celebrations this year have been confined to private homes.
'Happily: for the populace, there was no alr-raid to-day, Following: the hint by the Japanese naval Jspokesman at Shanghai that Japanese sireratt may. bomb the residential and. business districts in Hankow, and fse because the Japanese have'staged air-raids on Chinese national holidays, there was much talk last night that' Hankow would probably be subjected to its first large-
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