Secret Way from Old Ming Palaces to Tombs Nanking, Nov. 23.
Some of the workers who were opening up a hill just outside of the ety to make way for the new Chung. Shan Road connecting Hsiakuan with the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, have discovered a mysterious tunnel, Te is built of huge blocks of solid atone it is about seven fect high and a little more than a yard wide. Because of its location, between the fanions Ming Tomb and the old Ming Palaces, it is believed thet Yhrough this mysterious tunnel the Body "ut the first Ming emperor might have been brought to its cal burying ground, There has been a good deal of controver"y over the question as where the first: Ming emperor, was Buried, At the time of his dear Nanking, which was then the capital, had. thirteen gates, and when his body waa to be buried, thirteen coffins were carried out of the city, each one going through a different gate simultaneously. He had therefore tombs at thirteen, different places, the two most famous being one just outside of Nanking and another at Fengyanz, where he was born. The idea was make "it. impossible for hi enemies to find his remains. when dynasty ended. It hus been the Ddeliet of many people that the body was never buried in any one of there thirteen tombs but in some other place.
Even if the tunnel in question may not load to the actual barying: place, it seems practically certain that it is the passage way to the tomb of some member of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty While the fannel's entrance has Been examined by Mr. Liu Chie wen, mayor of this city, it is not yet decided whether the authorities excavate the tunnel. Nobody: allowed at present to enter it,
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