According to his surmisal, these earlier Chinese must have instructed their friends or relatives to have their remains sent back to their homeland after they died, and were buried rather than placed in the reliquary hall because of the concerns that their remains might be destroyed in the war. Perhaps those they had entrusted themselves met with an untimely death, or perhaps because there were no longer ships to take the coffins back.
據他們推測，這些老僑臨終前必是交代要送他回老家，為何不暫厝安骨堂而埋地底？或許是所托之人周到，怕遭戰火毀壞；或許所托之人也不幸在戰爭中發生意外；或是因為戰後不再有船接棺… …，他們便這樣等待了又等待。