BRITISH GOODWILL
OAKS AND BIRCH TREES FOR CHINA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 26. British oak and birch trees are to he planted as near as possible to the Mhuso cam at Nanking,, in which the remains of Dr San Fat-Sen, founder of the new republic of China, are to be reinterred this Avoek. The gift, is a token of British goodwill. The odseq.uies Avill ext (Aid over a week, conddeling with the' reinterment of the remains Avliich are being taken from Poking'to Nanking. Sir Miles T.nmpson, British Minister to China, Avill represent tlie British Government.
Dr Sun Yat-Sen uied in 1923, in Peking. The body was embalmed and taken, according to- custom, to a shrine in the Monastery of tile Azure Clouds, amoiig the Western Hills, about ten miles from Peking. The body p'aeed in a crystal coffin, is to he rcinterred in a Mausoleum erected by the National Government, on the Purple Mountain near Nanking.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1929, Page 3
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