The procession, in which about 10,000 people took part. was about two miles long. It started to line up fat 4 pin. and the cenotaph was to be carried by the second son Chang Msueh-liang, who did not take part in the cortege. Before the process sion started, he together with his brothers and sisters and the widows of the late Marshal, took a touching farewell of the cenotaph, which represented the soul of the dead man. In the procession were carried 20,000 mourning banners and streamers and 6,000 mourning flags as well as over, 200 paper effigies. A military band Chang Meueh-tiarly one nounces that the pri pal reforms in the internal sion of M churia will likin and natly ows: abolish cust:
ims, reduce the} picul, disband his cap. city as Garrison Commissioner of Peking and Tientsin, dered the total suppression' of wil labour Tue Japanese Consulate-General is reported to have lodged a strong. protest with the Chinese authorities against the new Nationalist trade mark registration laws. It is rumoured that Japanese will be advised not to "re-register their trade marks.
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