The Archive · 1938

Supt's Funeral

Bourne, Commissioner — Huge Crowds Line Streets as Mr. Loh Lien-kwo Is Laid to Rest; Mounted Police Active

Shangh Aug. 22.

SSASSINATED by unidentified gunmen's bullets on Aug. 18, \the late Supt, Loh Lien-kwo, Chief of the Chinese Section, ime Branch Headquarters of the Shanghai Municipal Police, was id to rest yesterday afternoon, Vast crowds, which lined the ute of the one mile long funeral procession, completely disrupted offic on the streets along which the cortege passed, and mounted lice action became necessary as thousands surged forward to a glimpse of the casket containing the Superintendent's remains \d of the immediate family: mourners.

All divisions and Head-carters of the Shanghai Municipal Police and the S.M.P. Specials, Shanghai Fire Brigade, and the French Police, were represented the funeral, which was the biggest seen in Shanghai for many The procession moved off at 1 pin. om the parlours of the Intern nal Funeral Directors on Kiaochow mad, headed by eight mounted Sikh'

of the SMP. under Trooper inspector O. C. Goldsmith and French Municipal Police Band ith draped drums.

As the cortege proceeded slowly ug Kinochow Road dense crowds ere pushed back only with the vatest difficulty by mounted police, the same conditions existed rough out the route of the proce: mn, Immediately following the aunted Sikhs and the French Police ud, a large detachment of Chinese stables of the French Municipal ice under their foreign officers, id foreign and Chinese detectives of body, slowly marched as the cession got under way. Then came detachment of the Shanghai Fire gade under a foreign oticer, fol-wed by a flower-bedecked car which ried "a huge portrait of the late iperintendent,

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