Yesterday afternoon, the day's ceremonies being concluded, many of the delegates. visited the famous Snowy Mountain and Monastery (Hsueh Tou Scud by sedan chair.
They passed, on the way up. to the renowned beauty spot, Gen," Chang riding in a sedan chair. The "Young Marshal," who was sun-lanned and who looked remarkably fit, now lives in the vielnof Snowy Mountain. At the Monastery the Chief Abbot received the visitors, who remained for a meatless Buddhistic tiffin with excel-Tent imitation duck, pork and ham and other monastic delicacies, This morning the burial tode place, with the village mingling with the hundreds of distinguished visitors In a splendid procession which march-ea for hourr. Crack military bands and village ard Boy Scout musicians played the funeral march as the endless line, moved through the Streets of Chikou, banners. gleaming the early sunshine, Past the hilltop villa occupied by' Gen. Chiang, through the length of the main street and back, in a wide sweep, to the final resting place. Uniforms listened in the brilliant light, the Immaeulate white of the village mourners dazzled the eye, great fire-crackers sputtered to dizzy heights before they fully exploded, ong files of children bearing funeral offerings passed, little hands clutching large, pale pastries, When. the great molal coffin was tinaly borne to the grave it took the pallbearers an hour and a halt cover a. distance ordinarily traversed in 25 minutes.
The Generalissimo had visited the ancestral hall early in the morning, accompanied by 2 host of national Tenders. He had walked the. short distance from the Fesidence to the hhall'and back again to the residence. The funeral procession having disbanded towards noon and the village having resumed an almost everyday aspect, the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang ventured forth a few minutes afler 12 o'clock. There was a slight haze induced by the heat as they for into sedan chairs and slowly moved down the hillside into the main streel, There was searcely anyone left in the roadway which an hour before had been an explosion of colour and sound. With but a fow in their entourage, China's Leader and First Lady proceeded practically unnoticed io the country grave of Mr. Chiang Shih-hou.
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