Show VICTIMS OF IMPERIALISM San Francisco Francises Examiner The national cemetery at the Presidio is to be enlarged to accommodate mo ate the ever increasing silent army rm of dead that come on every transport from the Philippines There is but little available space re no remaining remaining within the present limits and ami amia anda an ana a contract has bas been let for lor the th clearing of an additional addition at area of Q nearly square feet west of f the cemetery and anti antinow now covered by gum trees Of or the 2644 2044 soldiers who have hav met their death in the Philippines since the beginning of the war nearly pearly OO are buried in the Presidio cemetery Hun Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds lie He In nameless graves in the ml islands islands ands Hundreds have been shipped to mourning families and friends and lie In some quiet Gods God acre at home Hundreds are waiting at Manila to be besent besent besent sent here and burled buried but ut the cemetery must first be enlarged Nearly a hundred bodies in plain Wooden boxes are stacked up awaiting burial in the charnal house at the Pre Presidio Presidio Presidio sidio one above the other When a 8 soldier dies dle in the Philip Philippines Philippines Philippines pines his body is sealed up In a tin lined box and packed on board the transport When the transport arrives here the bodies are piled Plied high on trucks and carted to the Presidio Pre And now row after alter row of silent graves in the National cemetery tell the awful tale of war in the Philippines The recruit camp is just below and andin andIn andin in it are quartered the sol soldiers soldiers sd diers who ho will soon BOOR go westward to take the places of those who have died dl d from disease and wounds wound Sometimes these lighthearted recruits walk up in into Into into to the cemetery where lately there art arb always fresh graves and when they re return return turn turu they have a graver graer view of war Still the war goes on although Gen Con General eral Otis says ays it is Ia over ver and the dead dea d bodies keep on n coming home borne so fast that the cemetery at the rha Presidio must be enlarged to hold h l tle them |