"Long before the procession started] n the Chinese City crowds thronged along Boulevard des Deux Republi. ques and Chung Hwa Road and waited for hours for the funeral to come. All shop windows along these two. thoroughfares swarmed' wilh spectators.
Otticers of the Public Safety Bureau turned out in full force 1 maintain order. "With drawn pistols, they had 'a most dificult time in keeping the crowds back in order to allow the traffic to proceed when the: procession was still a great dis. tance away.
Ten Thousand in Procession Tt was estimated that no less than 10,000 persons participated in the funeral, representing, according the Shanghai Citizens " Federation, responsible for the funeral arrange. ments, more than 200 local publi: organizations.
Viewed from a distance, the procession was a mass of white flags and banners bearing sentences euro. izing what were described as the Patriotic deeds of the deceased. All these banners and flags were contributed by various public bodies tokens of their respect for the di ceased.
Headed by a brass band, the funeral started" from Nantag and proceeded along two thoroughfares Which formed a circle around the Chinese City. The procession broke up at the Soochow' Cemetery off Leeyuan Road in Nantao.
Pan Hung-sen, who formerly was apprenticed to a local paper shop, was a self.contessed member of a terrorist gang known as the "Bloody Corps for the Extermination of Traitors." He was arrested by the Municipal Police in 1932 and received a gaol term on the First Special District Court for being ce cerned in several bombing outrages committed in the Settlement. He became ill before he had completed! his term and was taken to a local hospital where he died on Nov. 3.
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