Aimerican Community Honouring the Graves of Those who Fell in Action The American community gather ed on -Wednesday morning ai Bubbling Well Cemetery to honour its soldier dead. Originailly decora tion Day, more formally. styled Memorial Day, was observed by the nation in honour of the veterans of the Civil War, but since the Spanish American War and the Great War -the idea has -broadened in scope and now all soldier and sailor graves are' honoured.
Two companies of sailors off the ships now in port along with, the American Company, S.V.C., met -at the Race Course and marched to the cemetery, where the civilian population had gathered, including the faculty and student body of the American School'and the Boy Scout troop from the school. The process sion came to 2 halt in platoon for-motion just before the entrance to the chapel, where Col W. L. Gordon, c.arG., D.s.0., Commandant, S.V.C., and representatives of the U.S. Consulate, Major~ Ransom, and representatives of the various American organizations awaited them.
Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham, U.S. Consul-General, welcomed the friends and citizens and pointed out that Admiral Phelps had instructed his subordinates that the graves of all Americans, who had given their lives, should be marked out by an American flag. He then introduced Judge C. 8. Lobingier, the speaker of the day, who said in part:—
The Civil War, out of which our Memorial Day arose, has long since passed into history. The time has come for am impartial and dispassionate appraisal of its leading participants on both sides and a search for what their lives and deeds can. teach us in our respective localities.
It happens that there is one great figure of our Civil War who had a brief connexion with China. He was the only former President of the United States who ever visited the land we live in and he seems to have been Shanghai's most famous visitor. Surely it is fitting for Americans in China to take some cognizance of this cen-ten ary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant.
Forty-four years ago this month, General Grant came to Shanghai. He visited other parts of China as well; went to Peking, saw the Great Wall, in which as a military expert he was naturally interested, and made the acquaintance of the famous mandarin, Li Huag-chang, whom he ranked with Gladstone and Bismarck as one of the three greatest characters whom he had Pi met on his tour round the world. But it was here that Grant was given the most remarkable reception, marred though it was by the distressing accident which caused the death of a leading Shanghai merchant whose hate is still in business here. The older residents
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