'The eye automatically takes in the hundred foot high Memorial. Obelisk on its platform immediately. behind the terminal. A mile to the left, the red hills embosom a great silver plaque,' the ce-memorial with the Obelisk and the Shrine, to the gal-Jant officers and men of the Kuangtung and Kwangsi Armies who fell fighting the Communists. But, beyond the fertile valley, the gaze 1s subtly but irresistibly drawn to the mottled yellow mountain five miles: west—Hsitwashan, one of the three: centres of wolfram and pewter ore. The other two ore mountains are twenty to thirty mites west.
For days prior to Sunday, March 1, 1936, the military coolie corps and others were working day and night completing the bus terminal, the liver plaque" and decorations thereon, "At daybreak that morning, General Ya Han-meo, with his divisional commanders, staffs, and official visitors from Kiangsi, Canton and Kwangsi, made their way from the new city through the East Mountain Gate, past the terminal and the Obelisk, along Namyung Road to the Ar-covered portals of the causeway Jeading to the hillside Memorial—to, conduct the inaugural ceremony. Later in the day, we went to see this memorial. From the end of the causeway branched graded roads for cars, bringing into relief a magnificent stairway, twenty feet wide, in three tiers, each about fifteen fect high. The head of the stairway is at the, edge of a wide, flower-rimmed, semicircular court, its centre occupied by the memorial tower.
The tower resembles a cenotaph, [supported by flanking buttresses. A.
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