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Couple Sent Ashes OfYank To FormosaTAIPEI tAP) - The ashes of an American couple who wanted to be buried in China were brought to Taipei from the United States Friday for temporary burial on Formosa.The man was Homer Lea of Denver, Colo., the first foreign d | military adviser to the Republic s of China. He died in Santa Monica. Calif., in November 1912 at the age of 116.Lea, author of The Valor of Ignorance and The Day of the Saxon, came to China in 1899 and later commanded a band of volunteers attempting to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, e CALLED GENERAL s Called General Lea by the e ; Chinese, he served as a military . i adviser to Dr. Sun Yat-sen be-n: fore and after the 1911 revolution which ended 46 centuries of imperial rule in China and established the republic headed by Sun.n Mrs. Lea died 20 years after njher husband.The couple's ashes arrived in Taipei in two wooden boxes, escorted by Joshua Powers, Mrs. Lea's son by a previous marriage. The Leas were childless by their own marriage.Also accompanying the ashes was Dr. John J. Ma, curator of the Asian collection of the Hoover Institute, which negotiated with the Nationalist Chinese government for the transfer of the ashes to Formosa.
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Apr 21, 1969
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