The Archive · 1937

BURIAL OF MARSHAL CHANG TSO-LIN Dead Nine Years, Remains Kept in' Mortitary: Russian Officers Send Present

ace Oot Ownt Comsrent Mukden, June 11, Just nine years after that explosion Three-span Bridge, where the South "Munchurie Railway crosses over the Jine from Peiping west of HMukden city, which ended the life Jor Marshal Chang Tso-lim, a special train passed under that same bridge. Tt carried the coffin of the late ruler jot the Manchurian Provinces to its ast resting place.

His funeral, in. 1928, thad been tended by la host of' distinguished mourners. The funeral banquet, th ceremonies and the. gifts from "those who had been hidden to the funeral feasts were on a truly regal scale Fifly miles from Mukden, on Mukden-Kirin Line, is the station Yuanshuallin, or Marshal's Grove. "Tt had been intended to call this Pusnshuailing, Marshal's Tomb, but It was Geelded to. give it the more euphonious name. Following, the branch-line through a notch in the hills about one mille from the oilway one finds the beautiful tomb which had been prepared to receive the mortal reinaing Jor the "Unerowned King of Manfeburia." Beautiful stones from the JPcoshan in Shantung, rare marbles from Peiping had been prepared at this beautiful site, in comparison with which the old Imperial Tombs in this vicinity pale into insignificance.

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