SUN YAT SEN’S FUNERAL
IMPRESS!YK SCENES
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SHANGHAI, June 1.
There were colourful impressive scenes at the Purple Mountain at Nanking to-day, when the ifour-year-old
corpse of Sun-Yat-Sen, the Father of the Chinese Republic, was deposited in a. specially built mausoleum on the summit of the mountain, which was the scene of a decisive battle in the final stages of the revolution off 1911. it is conservatively estimated that WOO.OfiO attended the interment services, including, it is believed, the greatest aggregation of foreign diplomats, special envoys and press .representatives over jointly assembled in the history of China. Eighteen foreign nations were officially represented. They were headed by the Dutch Minister, the doyen ‘lf the diplomatic body, Mr Oudenjik. He delivered a statement on behalf of his colleagues. He voiced the profound respect and svmaptliy felt by the Powers represented for China’s deceased revolutionary leader. He concluded by hoping that China forever would' be unified.
To-day’s interment culminates five days of intense national mourning. The journey of the corpse from the Western Hills to the Pekin district, where it has rested since his death, was marked with the most impressive funeral scenes ever beheld in Far Eastern history, surpassing the solemnity and grandeur of the funerals of the Emperors and Empresses before the revolution.
The casket was deposited in a huge dome, in the centre of the mausoleum, to the accompaniment of the hustle and excitement of a vast native assemblage. A salute of one hundred and one guns was fired. A conspicuous feature of the proceedings was the homage paid by the foreign representatives on the Nanking waterfront which recalled the stirring days of the revolt! tion. Dozens of foreigners’ ships intermingled with Chinese and Japanese warships moored inshore, all hall-mast-ed their (lags, and many were acting as hotels >lor the respective national delegates.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1929, Page 1
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