SUN YAT-SEN SALUTED
ENORMOUS PROCESSION FOLLOWS HEARSE BODY IN SPECIAL TRAIN (United Service) Reed. 11 a.m. SHANGHAI, Tuesday. Travelling from Peking to Nanking in a train specially built for the occasion, the body of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the Chinese revolutionary leader, arrived at Pukow station, and was greeted with a salute of 101 guns. Traffic in the Yangtse River was stopped while the bronze casket was placed aboard a Chinese gunboat amid another similar salute.
On arrival at Nanking, the casket was placed on. a special hearse, and preceded by an armoured car, headed an enormous procession to the Central Party headquarters office, where it will lie in State for three days prior to the burial;
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 675, 29 May 1929, Page 11
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