The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-21
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officials, including the foreign minis
ter, Eugene Chen, the finance minis
ter, II. V. Tsoong; Sun Foo and few
5thers, with secretaries and assistants
we're scheduled to depart from Can
ton on the Is or 16 to make general
survey of the situation in the newly
acquired territory.
On the basis of this inspection tour,
they were to make decision as to
whether or not the capital of the ma
tionaist government is to be remoy-
ed from Canton to a city in the Yang
TIE region in the immediate future.
Sun Yat-Sen Birthday Celebration.
What is considered by longtime
residents of China to have been the
largest popular celebration in recent
Chinese history was the communal
celebration of the Goth anniversary
Of DR.. Sun YaS-Sen's birthday, held
in Canton Nov. L. Work of all sorts,
save of the most necessary, was drop
ped for a. hours to allow all the
residents of the city to participate in
great festivities of varied kinds. 1t
is estimated conservatively that near
ly half million people participated,
in one way or another, in the exerciz-
es. te9
Huge Professions.
The observances opened the even.
ing before, with monster lantern
procession which wound in and about,
all around the city, thru the wide
driEeways called Ma Loo. Traffic was
blocked for about four hours, while
the seemingly never-ending parade
marched past. All sorts and condi-
lions of organizations took part, from
large delegations Of peasants, with
their queer medieval types Of arms,
such as knife-spears, tridents, etc., to
groups of officials.
There were immense student dele.
cations, representative groups from
all the trades and labor unions. dele
cations of boy scouts and girl scouts.
Every parader carried a paper Ian.
tern, and while one portion of the
line was singing, or shouting some of
the manifold slogans Of the nation
alist movement, military bands, in
other portions Of the line, made the
night gay with music.
Tell Of Significance.
simultaneously, on over $50 plat
forms specially erected in various
parts of the city, speakers addressed
various sized crowds on the lessons of
Dr.. Sun Yat-Sen's life and on the sig
nificance Of the nationalist movement
and its purposes of unifying China
under a democratic regime.
1t was, altogether, a prodigious dis
play Of the immense vitality of the
Cantonese and of the nationalist
movement, as well as Of the extra.
ordinary widespread character of the
organization of the Kuomintang (Peo-
Pies Parity in the nationalist revo-
lutionary capital.
On the twelfth there was an omen
air mass meeting at the East Parade
Ground, whose forty acres of space
seemed literally filled with humanity
when exercises opened on five sep
arate platforms at noon. At each OF
.hese platforms the reverent three
minute contemplation was begun at
aoon sharp, bare-headed, hundreds of
thousands bowling before pictures of
the late nationalist leader.
Speeches followed from all FIVE Mat.
forms. AT the central one these adj
dresses were made by Ku Meng-yu. bv
the chairman Of the strike committee
by Sun Foo, mayor of Canton and a
son OF DR.. Sun, and by Borodin. the
Russian high adviser to the national
list government.
Airplanes lowered overhead. aron.
ping leaflets. Military bands PLAYED
triumphant music, while an estimated
TWO hundred thousand men. women
and children gave voice to. the ardent
nationalist patriotism of China which
nowhere gets so unrestrained an ex.
preston as in Canton.
Politically what is considered a
most important communication was
dispatched by the nationalist govern.
ment on Nov. s. The representative
OF Portugal in the consular body at
canton was its recipient. This was
because no Is dean OF the consular
body.
u was, however, precisely because
no is dean that the note held the i'm
portance It does. 1t was, ostensibly
superficially, reply to the Portu.
guese consul's note transmitting 10
me nationalist government the pro-
test OF the diplomatic body at Picking
against the now production and con.
sumption taxes now being levied by
the nationalist government.
Tho note said. in effect, that Can.
ton, not Picking, IS today thu holder