Shanghai, Aug. 24. TESTIFYING to the high esteem in which he was held in Shanghai, the late Captain H. P, Krogh, who, it will be recalled, was brutally murdered outside his Amherst Avenue residence on the morning of August 18, was given the most impressive military funeral ever to have been witnessed here, yesterday afternoon.
Well before 5 pin., numerous cars arrived at the intersection of McBain and Gordon Roads where the cortege was formed, to deposit members of the various volunteer forces of the Shanghat International Settlement.
Volunteers took up positions when the hearse arrived at 5.10 p.m. and a cortege, led by a platoon of the "A" Company, S.V.C., of which the deceased had been the commanding officer, got under way.
Immediately following them was the Band, of the Second Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, in their smart white uniforms, followed by the hearse which was flanked by emeers of the various S. V. C. units who marched on the Inside, white the pallbearers, members of'"A" Company, walked' on the outside, The hearse was driven by a member of the American Machine Gun Ca, S. V. and was followed by the ear with the widow, her 12-year old son wearing his "boy-scout uniform, and Mr. I. Behrens, Secretary of the Great Northern Telegraph Ca., of which the late Capt, Krogh had been an official. Behind this car, that in which travelled the Danish Consul-General, Mr, Paul Scheel, and a Vice-Consul, both wearing their vold-embroidered diplomatic uniforms, followed.
Two Italian navy officers and a representative from the" French Defence Forces here as well as a Deputy-Commissioney of the French Concession Police, walked in one line, while another detachment from "A"
Amherst Avenue, Shanghai, and that he, when subsequently admitted to the Country Hospital, No. 17 Great Western Road, Shanghai, at about 849 am. of the same day died from his wounds, inflicted upon him for unknown motives by an unknown Chinese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.