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Show GREAT FUNERAL lloiskr Service field for Animals, Posthumous Nama Given Victims; Posts Mark Burial Place. Held at Miyagi Temple in Presence of Governor and Other Officials. VICTORIA, B. C. JIarch 23, Advices wcro received by tho steamer Kanngawa Maru of a monstor funeral service held at Mlyngl temple for the horses killed ' el u ring" the war. In tho prcsenco of the Governor and other officials the priests gave a posthumous name to thc victims and posts wore erected to mark tho supposed sup-posed bin-fill places of thc dead horees. Offerings consisting of beans and wheat wore placed on a large altar and a number num-ber of Buddhist priests read prayers. Tho obsequies were the same as those of soldiers. The president of the Mlyagl encampment en-campment of military horses delivered a memorial address for tho horses. Brigands Destroy Railroad. Japanese .papers tell of the rallwav north of Tic pass and Kalvuan having been destroyed In many placed In February, Febru-ary, prior to ibe big battle at Mukden, by Chinese mounted brigands, who also burned large amounts of Russian stores at Fakuman, . Subscribe for Japanese Hoan. Mr. Shlmlzu. Japanese Consul at Chicago, Chi-cago, arrived by the Kanagawa, and said the fourth domestic loan of fifty million dollars hnel boen subscribed within a few days of its Issue on February 27. Tho Toklo banks took two-thirds eind thc Imperial Im-perial household subscribed ten millions. Testing Bullet-Proof Plate. A bullet-proof breast plate Invented bv a Toklo man was successfully tested at Omorl range on March 3. The apparatus, weighing ten pounds, whs not pierced even at tlio shortest range. At twenlv-flve twenlv-flve yards a dent was maele. but thc regulation reg-ulation rlllo bullets did not penetrate. Steamers in Collision. The steamer Sapporo Maru was sunk in collision with the Chltose Maru in Tsu-guru Tsu-guru straits, near Hakodate, on February IS. 'All were saved. Thirteen hundred Koreans, the llrst batch of many, left Chemulpo for Mexico on March 1. Twenty-five destrovors aio oxpeeted to bo chartered for tho" Japanese Japan-ese In August. |