Your correspondent to-day took Fort in a funeral service for two French sailors who died at the luckade of Ningpo, 36 years ago.
hey were buried on one of the snialler islands in the Chusan Archipelago and yesterday morning they were exhumed and brought into Tinghai on board the French gunboat Craonne.
At 7.30 this morning a funeral service was read.on the after deck of the Craonne by the French Catholic Bishop of Ningpo assisted by Pere Buck and other Catholic priests.
Pere Buck gave a short sermon, in which he, laid stress on the fact, that the two coffins standing before him contained the remains of two noble Frenchmen, who had died for France. He asked those present never to forget that they were here continuing the good work which members of the French Navy had done before them. He referred to the sacrifices of France in the Great War and laid stress on the fact, that France had not been fighting for conquests but for justice.
After the service the coffins were placed in two boats towed by a pinnace and ®brought alongside one of the jetties. The coffins were then carried to the French cemetery, adhere the Bishop conducted the last rites, after which the last post was sounded and three volleys fired. Then again another bugle call "saluting the flag" and a very impressive ceremony came to a close.
Amongst the civilians present were M. and Mme. Mangon from: Ningpo and Messrs. Parise and J. C. E. Rye of the Salt Revenue Department. The Salt Revenue issers Haichow and Chien An were in port and had their flags at. half mast as a token of respect.
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