Ata very early hour yesterday morning President Yuan Shih-kai, accompanied by various high officials, ited the Confucian temple in Peking, where the first formal worship of the great sage, since the inauguration of the Re public, was performed, Great interest attaches to the event in view of the movement to make Con-
China, Chinese correspon fucianism the State religion of
dent in Peking of the "Peking and Tientsin Times," referring to the ceremony says:— st than earnest, we feel sure, to aire, President will wear the new official by the Government for the important' purlem and garment as prepared speak as if the British alone were doing all the work. That is not ose, and mill be. accompanied. by the iniaters of Interior and of Educatic the spirit of the War Office, of 1e President of Sir John French or the officers under him. The plain facts of the The ancient music will case, the immense number of Ger- YY. the specially-trained musi mans, where they have been in past weeks, where they are now, their desperate and fruitless efforts to break through their opponente—all these things speak eloquently of the magnificent work of the French army. If the French troops ere proud to be fighting alongside the British, the extent to which that feeling is returned may be imagined. Whether in strategic retreat or victorious advance the French army has won no brighter laurels than those which the present war has added to it, scholar Chang aod ty ae tae with new songs compiled
the purpose of preventing any unhappy ture It is ssid that for jolar Ct Chien, Minister of iculand Commerce.
occurrence on the important occasion only special ial guests will be admitted into the Temple to witness the unique, ceremony: Confucians are exceedingly jubilant and it in believed the President will gain the S
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