TOO PROGRESSIVE.
FUNERAL OP THE DOWAGER-EMPRESS OP CHINA. MARRED BY WESTERN'"HUSTLE." (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright I ' (Rec. November 22, 9.20 p m.) Peking, November 22. Tua-fang, Vicoroy of Chvh, has been sternly censured for allowing photographs to be taken of tho funeral cortege of the late DowagerEmpress Tsu-Hsi, and for permitting the using of'trees within the mausoleum enclosure as telegraph poles
;ft ;o; THE: ROYAL, v 'The Dowager-Empress of '. 'China,'". Tsu-Hsi, died.in ; November last..On November. 8 tho coffin containing her body was removed from Peking! where, it had, been lying in'state.in. the .palace,/to the Eastern Tombs;:'.which, are situated' three' oivfour': days'; inarch .from'• the city; ■■:;.':-........ '-i ■;.■.. v ■';: .'.-,:; v:-:v ::-■:/:.■'■::■-:i ..- i: ;in connection.with of .the coffin, idi-remarkable prdcessiqn' was (formed.,- A'feature of the fuheral'.'was.the quaint ceremonial; The • Ministers., of / tho foreign Powers. represented in .'Poking were . present', at the' ..cer'e-■mony.i;;,-..iv ;;:■:■';. X ::.-';';■'v .v\)." ,:!■:• - ; '7;.''':.; v..-' ; _Tflo, Emperor. Kwang Hail's : body was kept, in", Peking; from, November till: May,Vwhen'.''it was/conveyed mausoleum prepared" for' it. ;'at ■the ..Western■- Tombs. : .The. J'processioh ac-. cOmpaiiying."the funeral on: that occasion' was two miles 10ng..'..- : , ; /0 .'',-:'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 5
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178TOO PROGRESSIVE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 5
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