In the annals of the Royal Ulster Rifles should bbe recorded a tribute to the gallantry of their men while in the front line in. the western district by a number of Chinese whose names no, tone has seen fit to record, They were the helpless refugees who were caught between the fire of the Chinese and the Japanese lines and who were aided to safety by men of the regiment. Some of them were wounded, others, {oo old to make the dash across the area over which rained bullets from either side, To these the men of the Royal Ulster Rifles went to the rescue, helping them carry their precious be-eugings into the safety zone, and in more extreme cases, creeping out of the British tines and dragging in wounded civilians, These acts of merey were widely extolled in the Chinese press, and may have been partially accountable for the large number of sympathetic demon-strafers who attended the funeral. At about 2 pin, on Monday a small crowd of aged men and women were seen gathering outside the International Funeral Directors on Kiaochow Road. They were mostly of the poorest class, and were consequently pushed into the. rea of the other and better organized Chinese who wished to take part in the procession. Never= theless they were as genuine mourners as any~ body present; for they represented the people who were actually brought across the fung line by the men who were being buried, and their comrades, They followed far in the rear of other demonstrators, but the significance of their demonstrations was not ost. upon those who saw the efforts of their countrymen, Elderly men and women hobbling a few hundred yards after the main procession probably gave as fine a tribute to the departed as could be given anywhere in the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.