'A Seamen's Cemetery in Pootung Village Surrounded by busy factories and squalid Chinese huts of the poorest type, lies the Pootung Cemetery, a patch of land measuring slightly over three acres in area, and containing the. bodies of foreign seamen who died here before 1900. Situated about half a mile inland from a point direet-Jy opposite The Bund, it is reached by a winding street which, incidentally. is infested by hordes of the most mangy dogs imaginable, and, despite its comparative nearness the centre of the bustling metropolis of Shanghai, it lo known to but a few foreign residents, Very few burials have taken place there since 1900, with the exception the re-interment last Thursday of six men. whase bodies had. been buried In a plot not properly a part of the cemetery. Despite the fact that I is rarely, if ever, visited, it Is kept Ina wonderful state of tidiness by the Superintendent of "Municipal Cemeteries.
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