DR SUN YAT SEN.
OBSEQUIAL CEREMONIES, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 27,
British oak and birch trees are to be planted at, or as near as possible to, the mausoleum, at Nanking, in which the remains of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the new Republic of China; are to be reinterred this week. The gift is a token of British goodwill. The obsequial ceremonies will extend over a week, concluding with the reinterment of the remains, which are being taken from Pekin to Nanking. Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, will represent the British Government.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen died in 1923 at Pekin. His body was embalmed .and taken according to custom to a shrine in the Monastery of Azure Clouds, among the western hills, about ten miles from Pekin. The body is to be reinterred in a mausoleum erected by the National Government on the Purple Mountain near Nanking.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 151, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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