The Archive · 1923

PEKING'S MONUMENT TO PRES. HARDING

Peking, Nov. 19.

A magnificent marble monument to the memory of President Harding was dedicated yesterday by Dr. Schurman in the presence of 10,000 Chinese. at the Central Park. Subscriptions to the momument, limited to one dollar per person, were raised under the -auspices of the Chinese Foreign Relations Association.

The inscription states, inter alia, that the late President of the United States in convening the Washington Conference, made possible an epoch-making event which was the first deliberate and effective expression of the Great Powers in the consciousness of peace and war's utter futility.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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