Throngs District 'More than a quarter of a million'
[thoroughfares in the vicinity of pee on May 2 Seamed a Bubbling Well Temple. Police and Temple officials declared that this" was the greatest crowd that ever celebrated the anniversary of Buddha's birthday. High Priest Tse Fah said that two addi ional days may be added to the to accommodate the ferowds, 'Two thousand stalls, 700) more than last year's record num ber, blocked the pavements, and the' streets became So crowded with, pedestrians that only with, the Fifty Chinese and four foreign officers regulating traffic on the four streets around to the Temple were practically helpless: rom sunrise until sunset Chinese elbowed their way through] the narrow, crowded corridors, of the temple to pay homage, before the shrines to Buddhist gods. The High Priest said that_ celebration of the nativity of Buddha has never been more elaborately observed during the sixteen years he has been inthe temple, He said that "crowded conditions "of the temple were making, it, impossible for all to worship, and that, cessary, the period of worship would be extended until Wedrgstwo days longer than the previously decid Ata special feast at noon in the tons te on May the High Priest Sceeomed.trastees of the' tempre (prominent members of Chinese Key politico' and soval ete Dirlog the feast, those pre-Seni wore Centertaned we de:
3 by the Volunteers, Boy Scouts of the Temple School fire "works display. The feast ray entirely" vegetarian, the of animals, even for feed. ing. Terposts, being forbidden.
'Thousands of dollars worth oes papers ieense,, and' candles wore "disposed. of by stall-ko fo" worahippers."-Large. sac fires" burned before each of. the thay fin ages in the 'Temple. "The {ange statue. of Buddha was made the contre of activity. by. thousands frio'came to offer sacrifices of Joss nds incensey and. pats on to other pages: Bevides the, bronze images the eighteen La Hen gous 'Krines_to' the god.
piness, the God of Hieaven, the God of the City, Lin Kong, Jed by the faithful, High Priest Tse Fah was presented with an enormous plague basket fair merchants, On this plague the High Priest was thank Jed by the stall-keepers for his}
Outside the Temple walls streets were s0 crowded that even pedestrians found difficulty in making headway. Many children were trampled upon, and many more be-Jeame separated from their parents. Beggars were almost as numerous; as venders, Unable to find space on streets adjoining the Temple, stall-Keepers set up their wares on side streets, and for a quarter of mile, of more in all directions from the Temple streets were too con gested with buyers and hawkers, allow for free-moving traffic, ithe interests of his own country] Jand those of other countries (in fclading Great Britain), whose inferent were entzpsted to him when their representatives left Russi well-known, it. Oudendijk was appointed on January 7, 1919, to the post of Netherlands Minister t@ China and Ihe later became Doyen of the Diplomatie Corps, posts which he now relinquishes.
He is Commander of the Order lof the Netherlands Lion and Orange fassatt and he has been decorated Jat various times by the Govern: ments of China, France, Great Britain, Persia, Rossia, Spain sweden and by the Red Cross of Austria and that of Hungary.
Mr. W. J. I. Thorbecke, Counjsellor to the Netherlands Legation Berlin, whose name has most prominently been mentioned as Mr. Oudendijk's successor as Minister to Chioa, is due in Shanghai about the middle of next month, whilst} Senor D. Justo-Garrido y Cisneros, the Spanish Minister to Peking, will fill his place as Doyen of the Dip-Tomatie Corps.
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