The Archive · 1938

Japanese Bomb South China Provinces

Systematic Raids Carried Out from Weichow Is, Hongkong, Sept. 22.

Using the recently occupied island of Weichow in the Gulf of Tonking, about 38 miles south of Pakhoi, as base, ten Japanese planes are systematically carrying out bombing operations in Kwangsi and Kwangtung.

Peiping, Sept. 22.

The Peiping "Provisional Govern: went," it is learned, has regulated the legal holidays to be observed arious Government organizations ang schools.

These are now made to total nine, nomely January 1, The first three days of the Chinese New Year, The Chinese Ching Ming Festival, which is. to be observed as Arbor Day, The Dragon Boat Festival, The Mids Autumn Festival, The Birthday of Confucius, which falls on the 17th. of the eighth moon, and The "Double Tenth" (October 10).

November 12, the birthday of Di Sun Yat-sen, which has been observed as a national holiday since the advent of the Kuomintang to power, is not included among the official hol mots of the Peiping "Provisional Goyer!

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