893.44 Sun Yat Sen/61
The Minister in China ( MacMurray ) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 2.]
Sir:
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The diplomatic representatives were provided by the Chinese Government with a special train which left Peking on May 27th at 5 p.m. and arrived on schedule at Pukow on Tuesday morning, the 29th, at 10 a.m. They were met at the station by representatives of the Foreign Office and were escorted across the river to Nanking where automobiles were waiting to take them to their various places of residence while in Nanking.
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On the morning of May 30th the foreign representatives and their staffs called upon Dr. C. T. Wang. On the morning of May 31st they were received in audience by General Chiang Kai-shek in his capacity as President of the Chinese Government, after which they proceeded to the Kuomintang Party Headquarters where the body of Dr. Sun Yat-sen was lying in state, and paid their respects to the remains of the late President. On June 1st they took part in the funeral procession which left the Central Kuomintang Headquarters at an early hour in the morning.
The entire arrangements for the state funeral were dignified and impressive, and the ceremonies were carried out with the greatest smoothness and good taste. …
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I have [etc.]