The burial of the remains of the late General Viadmir Samoyloft, who died on February 14 between Japan and Shanghai on board the M. M. S. Andre Lebon, while on his way to Switzerland, took place on Saturday afternoon the Bubbling Well Cemetery. General Samoyloft had suffered from a bad attack of pleurisy before he left Japan, where he had been for over twenty years, and was very weak when he left on the French mail. He died two days after leaving for Shanghai. The deceased officer was not only well known in Russia as a soldier, but he was popular in Japan, as may be judged from the fact that he represented the Russian Army in that country both before and after the Russo-Japanese war.
The funeral, which was sccompanied with' military honours, brought together large number of people, both inside the chapel and along the path leading to th grave. Inside the chapel were distinguished attendance of mourners including Mr. Victor Grosse, the Russian Consul-General; Lieut.- Colonel Kremeneteky, the second military agent for Russia in Shanghai; Mr. D. Biffert, Consul-General for Belgium; Sir Everard Fraser, Consul-General for Great Britain; M. Naggiar, Acting oosul-General for France; Mr. A. Ariyoshi, Japanese Consul-General; Mr. L. Scelsi, Consul-General for Italy, Mr. E. C. Pearce, Chairman of the Municipal Council; Lieut.-General
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