Somebody evidently has been "pulling the leg" of the "Daily Graphio" by-sending it a couple of pictures of an extravagant faneral in Peking. Under a picture of an "Tmposing Funeral of a Chinese War Lord" in its issue of August 14, we read:—
"Forty-eight coolies carried the hearse' of General Chang Tso-lin at hie funeral in Pekin. He was one of China's most famous military leaders, sometimes called the Mukden War "One of the strangest sights at a Chinese funeral is the procession of nrofessional mourners, wailing and lamenting, Here they are seen monrnme at the funeral of in? one Tse There are. doubtless. not a few members of the Chibli party who wish the pictures might realy be of the funeral of Marshal Chane. Bret, good as they are in themselves, thes break down over the awkward fact that Chane is stil} "alive and kicking" as hard as ever in Mukden, There have been
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.