BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE
ENGLISH TREES WILL SWAY OVER SUN’S GRAVE NATIONAL HERO OF CHINA British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. 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 the late 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 and will conclude with the reinterment of the remains, which are being taken from Peking to Nanking. Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, will represent the British Government. Dr. Sun Yat-sen died in 1923 at Peking. His body was embalmed and. according to custom, taken to a shrine in the Monastery of Azure Clouds among the western hills, about 10 miles from Peking. A crystal coffin containing the body is to be placed in a mausoleum erected on behalf of the Nationalist Government on Purple Mountain, near Nanking.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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166BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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