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Show ' BODY OF CHINESE EMPEROR PLACED III TEMPORARY TOMB: -'V Funeral Services Noted for Strange Mixture of Ancient Chinese Customs Cus-toms With Western Practices. u Pekln. Tho body of Kuang Hsu,, the Into emperor of China, was on-Wednesday on-Wednesday carried with much coro- ( mony from tho hall In the "forbidden, clty," whero It hns reposed for th- T ' last week, to tho Coal Hill mortuary. It will hero continue to Ho in stato pending tho location and construction, of tho Imperial sepulchre. The funeral services wero noted; for a strango mlxturo of ancient Chi-neso Chi-neso customs with westorn forms ' and practices, a fact that shows tho irogress mndo in recent years ot modernizing tho system of procedure for Imperial Interments. Many of tho I old grotesoue funeral forms thnt havo '; been obsorved for centuries wero lg-r.orrd. lg-r.orrd. The cortege wns accompanied by i 0.000 mourners nnd 4,000 soldiers. Fully 10.000 men knelt In tho strcots t the Imperlnl city as the procession .went by. The baby emperor nnd tho downger-empress, downger-empress, Yehonnhi, widow of Huang Hsu. knelt sldo by side on tho floor or , the hnll where tho body had been reposing re-posing ns the remains started on their final Journey. Foreigners were for tho first tlmo permitted to witness tho lmporlal funeral fu-neral procession. AlmoBt tho entire line of mnrch was screened off from the gaze of the public, but provision was made for tho foreigners ot tho S city to occupy points of vnntnge. I |