Show great chinese festival special to tas 1 dec 8 la all the cable that have come from the orient daring the pat month there haa beau no mention of tha areat festival which should have been opened at pekin on november ath in honor of the sixty farat birthday of the empress dowager of china and the very natural tion is that the war baa caused an aban dorment of the function thia of itself is almost as areat a blow to china an the war for the festival preparations tor anich bad been in progress for two years was to have anex iture of TOO and it wa ins tended that the affair should eclipse anything of the kind that bad occurred in china for two the celebrations were to have been held in every city town and hamlet in the kingdom at pekin alone an appropriation of was made tor the local coloration and the general pro gramme of festivities throughout the country fill a pamphlet of over one hundred cna fifty pages whether the celebration baa been absolutely abandoned or pimply postponed until a cessation of is ao far a matter of conjecture |