and Mining Co's steamer Kungpins, on board of which are the coflins containing the rem' the murdered patriotic Tsungli Ministers, the Into Hsii Ching-ch eng (V' President of the Board of Revenue), Y Chiang (President of the Court of Sacr Ceremonies) and Hsi Yung-yi (Pres of the Rosrd of War) arrived in Shang-bai at about 6 or 7 o'elwck on Saturd morning, The remains were temporarily placed all day and overnight in the Ningpo godown of the China Merchants," south of the Kinleeyuen Wharf, where oppertunity was given to "the officials gentry, merchants and people in Shanghai to offer libations, ete, t the remains, The funeral cortdza started prompt-Jy at 9.30 on Sunday morning fre the southern end of thy: Kinleeya-n Wharves for Sinza, Tne crowds of sightseers were immense, it being ealeulated that all along the route of the p cession no less tlven 150,000 persons. present. There were several distin ive features connected with the cortege which it will be interesting to note here, In first place the deceased Minis ers bei prembersof the Confucian relision there neither Buddhist nor Taoist priests present it the procession. The second was th wilkie ordinary funeral processions. wher coffins are generally followed by numerous solan-chaira draped in white and occupied by female relations of the deceased, thy WAS not A "f the weaker sex present yesterday ly the process: sion was decorated by no less than sixty funeral banners, the gifts of the highest officials and dignitaries of the empire and therefore out of the ordinary. Moreover, theca was only one yang, which headed the procession to give notice of the cuming of the coffins, and only two flute and cymbal bands of boy musicians uniformed in red, very unlike other "obsequies of mandarins, where gongs and trumpets, ete, are the order of the day. There were also quite 200 students of the Nanyaw: College, simply dressed in light Line cotton gowns and exch holding a stick of burning incense in his hand." This also was unique feature never yet seen in Chi Mong the route shops large and small had bles set out with sacrificial food placed ide the front entrance and facing the road, as a silent token of respect to the murdered patriots, Besides these there were tables of sverificial food set out in the strents in twenty or thirty different places
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