Abbot of Peiping Temple Is Forbidden to Cut Them Peiping, May 20, The thousands of century-old. cypress trees which adorn the Rrounds of the Fah Hai Sen, in the Western Hills, have been saved by a decision of the Peiping Municipality.
Some time ayo the abbot of the temple submitted a petition 0 the Mayor, General Chin 'Teh-chun, sugesting that some 8,000 cypress' trees fon the grounds of the temple be cut, He offered to donate 40 per cent. of the (proceeds from the sale of these wees to charities maintained by the Municipality.
The Mayor instructed the Bureaux of Police and Social Welfare to in vestigate the matter and, according ly, two offciale were sent to the Fah Hai Sen. The investigators have returned to Peiping and recommended that the petition of the abbott be re-Jected.
'The beauty of the temple, it is pointed out' by the investigators, would be seriously impaired by the felling of these trees, "and there is absolutely no justification for the request of the abbot—Reuter.
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