The interment of the ashes of Dr. Wu Ting-fang took place yesterday at noon in the form of a Public ceremony. A salute was fired from the Chinese gunboat in the harbour—Reuter's Pacific Service, educative and the presence of two Ambassadors, those of Great Britain and Germany, opposed, made the proceedings something out of the ordinary, the origin of the Japanese still remains a Chinese puzzle. The Japanese Government, as I wrote lonce before, has accepted the findings of its savants that the Japanese are a white race, contending that they are the direct descendants of- the Aina, the aborigines of Japan, who are: admitted to be an offshoot -of white race.
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