The Archive · 1931

THE EX-EMPEROR ANGRY

Scheme {0 Transform the Tung-ling Tombs Interviewed by a representa lot the. "Commercial Daily Ne (Tientsin). in connection with the scheme of the National Government to transform his ancestors' tombs fat Tung-ling into a forest for tour-fists, Mr. Henry Pu Yi, otherwise the Ex-Emperor Bean' Tung, expressed his indignation at the' proposal, Recently I was informed by our guares at the Tung-ling Imperial Tombs", said the "Boy" Emperce angrily, "that, some t presentatives of the Mi interior visited the tombs told our men that, at the sugges-ion of Messrs. Li Shih-toong, vehi. and Chiang Mon istrative Yuan in Nanking had: approved the plan to confiscate the Imperial Tombs and to conver the whole arca into a model forest funder the direct management. of the Peking Cultural Committee, "Their idea was that, since the Imperial Tombs have a history of more than 300 years and the land quiet and beautiful, it should be further beautified sofas to attract tourists from all parts of the world. This is to help the old lea pital to restore part of its former glory. Besides, the confiscation of the tombs is another effort to, cure ition of Fengshui? With anew and model _parkism', which exercises a' strong fuente among certain families, Iwittsoon die out."

Continuing, the "Boy" Emperor that he understood that the Administrative Yuay had already structed the Ministries of Education, Interior and Industries to take the question under consideration. His indignation was inten-

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