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Show CHINESE VETERAN OF A. E. F. BURIED WITH FULL HONORS SAN FRANCIBCO, Jan. 24. I'he West blended with ih- Far Baal Sunday in paying honors to Hong chow Lee, son of a Chinese merchant and the first Chinese i her to enllfl tor the world war. Hoiik was killed In the Argonne. I His body was returned r.i this rtty his birthplace, last week He was 22 years old. The funeral services wire held in the little Chinese Congregational Congregation-al church, overlooking Portsmouth Square, tamed as a haunt of Kob-ert Kob-ert l-ouls Stevenson. The Aineri- an Legion and the Chinese Six I i mpanles were In charge. A detachment de-tachment of troops from the l're-sidlo l're-sidlo rendered military honors. American Legion members were I pall-bearor, and seven Chinese, members, all wearing their uniforms uni-forms were honorary pali-bearer., Charles ICendrlck, a state of filial fi-lial of the legion, pronounced an eulogy and .". choir of Chines,, boys and girls sang two symns. The funeral procession in which Chinese and American customs wen mingled, wound through the narrow strocta of the Chinese Quarter to a cemetery maintained ' bj members of Hong's ra e. There i long's comrades bade him fare-(roll fare-(roll with a volley ovoi the open grave and the Bounding of "taps " |