The Archive · 1922

Imposing Funeral Rites

THE LATE PRINCE SSU

Peking, Apr. 11.

The body of Prince Ssu arrived at the Chien Men Station from Port Arthur shortly before three o'clock this afternoon, and was conveyed with fitting pomp to the family burial ground at Chiasung, outside the Shakuomen.

The funeral parade was a very imposing one, being organized after the style of the Imperial House. A number of sacrificial shrines had been erected along the route, at each of which a halt was made.

A number of Mongolian princes and Manchu nobles were included in the party which received the body at the station.

The bands of the Peking Gendarmerie, the Metropolitan Police and the Ministry of the Navy were in attendance.—Reuter.

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

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