Request for funds to buy new vestments so that Chien Lung and Tau Hsi may be reburied in. proper style has been made by a Manchu prince and laid before the ex-Emperor Hsunn Tung, who is now living in Tientsin, says the North China Standar of August 30, Iti understood that the former the body, Pulun erying "My old Buddha" many times like a child. Somebody in the party suggested that a picture be taken of the scene of havoc wrought by the military vandals, but this was vetoed by Pao Hsi on' the ground that it would constitute a great disrespect to the memory of the dead. titular re'-r is calling a confer ence of Manchu leaders to discuss the matter.
Interest in the Manchu imperial tombs deseration continues in Chinese circles. According to a Manchu official quoted in the "Yi Shih Pao," a party of Manchu clanamen led by Pao Hsi, Pulun and Tsai Chih arrived at Malaukuo last Wednesday for inspection of the tombs. That of the Emperor Chien Lung was the first to engage their attention, but owing to the place being flooded, they were unable to proceed beyond the entrance.
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