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Show A'AlbS run niapt r: . AN Ismaial lleleMKle ta Hie I'MIIJ aitatie la strlilssi reeej. Chioauo, Mar 18. Major Uansral Wesley Merrill, eommaoJer of Ibe depailment of tb Missouri, and K?bcrt T. Llnoolr, hsve returned from th 1'els Fishing cluli resrrv ou J'elee Island iu Lska T-rle. Utneral Hchofleld was also a meniher of toe party. lien. Merrltt aiui "Ou thing 1 fuuod out slx-ut I'eUe, it la ownd by Ureal Britain and aouordlng to the Clayti.nliuiwer treaty or IbuL It should belong lo turn fulled Hlatea. Ibetnaiy provided thai all Islands north of the channel In the like ahould belufg to Ureal limalu and suuth of Ihe channel to Ibis o uairy, Tbe ohsnuel cutirs was uot properly laid dowu at that lime or has chauged since, as It is uut n rib or tn lalauJ. Wweutuplu I'uUln-Hay Island near ba acene uf Commodure I'erry's greet navel victory. We visited a neglected, wllluw-gruwn spot where Ihree Ameorloan aod thru) Kngltab naval liauleoauts and a number of other dead belonging lo both o mutries are l urled. Titer ar no sioues or other grave marks. T h lot la luoloted only wltb posis Bud a chalu. 1 bad beard the government luteuded filling aud marking lu a proper manner these graves, and the urpoa. of our trip waa to aa If any thing bad been don.1 |