Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — Old Chinese Burial Places. [ARTICLE]

Old Chinese Burial Places.

Shanghai’* old buildings on the Bund are rapidly disappearing, and with their destruction many discoveries in the way of old burial places are being made While excavating for a new building two Chinese graves were discovered. Upon being opened, the coAns were found to be in a good degree of preservation, considering the toagth of time they must have been lying tn the swamp. The Inscriptions upon the stone tablets marking As graves are llligible, so any conecturs a* to their age is almost impossible. An urn containing a quantity of bones was also unearthed.