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Show China Mandate Orders Use of New Calendar Shanghai. Documents dated by China's old style lunar calendar will not be valid after January 1. 1930, according to a mandate issued is-sued by the national government. It Is hoped that if the government govern-ment can compel business houses to follow the "foreign style calendar," calen-dar," the general public will do so likewise. Previous efforts at modernizing mod-ernizing the calendar have met with scant success, and Chinese New Year was duly celebrated throughout the country this year in spite of official prohibitions. |