The remarkable attendance of journalists of every nationality at the funeral of Mr, Philip Pembroke Stephens testified to the esteem in which Mr. Stephens and his great journal were alike held. British journalism too feels a debt of gratitude to the representatives of its craft from other nations who paid a last salute of comradeship to their dead colleague. The funeral was simple and in no sense official. On that account it was specially gratifying to note that His Majesty's Consul-General was duly represented by Mr. John Alexander, that Mr. T. Y. Chang represented the Mayor of Shanghai's City Government and that Major Utsonomyia not only shared with Mr. Y. Horiguchi the representation of Japanese sympathizers but by joining with the pall-bearers paid a graceful tribute to the man whom he had so often met in the daily press conferences. The occasion was marked by an international unity in emotion which will be long remembered by those present.
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