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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 6

TO A GREAT REVOLUTIONARY. “In every official function reverence in paid to the dead Sun Yat Sen by the reading of his will, the three ceremonial bows'and the silent meditation, as it were, ‘in bis presence.’: The principles are taught in every school and the ceremony performed In* all once a lyeek. Propaganda of all kinds centres around this man and his ideas. The majestic tomb, the costly road, the national mourning when Chinese of all ages concentrated on the buriid rites are all part of a plan which is designed to strengthen the national will and direct it.to a, common end. It is strange to see this great democrat honoured by a tomb designed to outshine the glory of the Mi ngs, and placed on higher ground which practically overlooks their tombs, and that in making a road to it thousands were rendered homeless from the. very classes whom Dr Sun lived and died to elevate and serve. These incongruities at least suggest a real danger. Will the elevation of this national hero, designed to provide a moral sanction for the. new .■nationalism, in effect become for 1 many a substitute for religion.”—Dr llonrv T. Hodgkin. -V ' . -■

Finialjlv an imTiotment for nvurde/r was secured against five men, and another indictment against two' men fill urging them with assaulting Miss U'illie R uminer as her sweetheart was hurning on liis funeral pyre.