Nanking, Sept. 24, The Executive Yuan this moming approved the flotation of $10,000,000 worth of bonds for flood relief purposes, to be secured on the Customs surplus.—Reuter, of the late M. H. A, Wilden, the French Minister to China, Detach-Jments of the Embassy Guards of Great Britain, the United States, Moly, and Japan rendered. the last military Honours, whilst a large and Fepresentative gathering of many nationalities followed the comin on the slow and impressive journey from the French Legation to Peitang. The French Legation Guard and detachments of troops from the French garrison in Tientsin escorted the coffin. most Impressive ceremonial service in the Cathedral was attended by all the members of the Diplom: Body in Peiping and by a very lar number of personal friends "drawn from all classes, foreign and Chinese, [The final Benediction was pry: nounced by Bishop Montaigne, Bishop Montaigne, in broken accents, also pronounced the last prayers in the Peitang cemetery, where Ile the reinaing of those comrades of the late M. Wilden who fell in the defence of the Legations against the Boxer rebels in the siege of 1900. Senor Armando Navarro, the Portuguese Minister, representing the doyen of the Diplomatic Body, at present absent from Peiping, spoke fly before the interment, and M.-H. Hoppenot, the French Charzé J'Adaires, followed with an eulogy of Wilden's career and services for fois country, particularly emphasizing all he had done for the continuance fof good relations between France fond China, and between France and all other nations,
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