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Show DRAVE MEN HONORED. J Japan Raises Monument to Russians Killed at Port Arthur. London. The peaceful epilogue ot n great military drama was given at Port Arthur recently when a curious picturesque and touching ceremony wbb performed. Through the Initiative Initia-tive of Oen. Oshlina. governor of Kwnng-Tung. Japan has put up a collective col-lective monument to the remains of the Russian itcfeml'TS slain In the siege of Port Arthur. "This measure serves two purposes." says ''Illustration." ''Illus-tration." "Many of the soldiers, In tho first place, had a merely provisional burial. They wero burled whero they fell, and tho place was marked by a cross of wood or uncarved stone. Inauguration of Port Arthur Monument. Monu-ment. This mado of Port Arthur a gravo-yard gravo-yard that was eloquent but not dignified. dig-nified. In tho Bccond plnco, tho, proverbial pro-verbial rapacity ot tho low class Chinese Chi-nese docs not sparo tho poor to-mains to-mains of tho dead. To steal a button from a tunic, tho scabbard of a sword, If not rings, wntches and othor valu-ablo valu-ablo objects, tho thieves will dig up tho corpses and profane- them without tho slightest compunction. Therefore, for convcnlcnco In guarding tho graves, as well as for tlio honor duo to tho bravo, tho collective tomb was mado and dedicated In tho presenqo ot mingled emissaries of tho czar and tho Jnpancso authorities." Qen. I.ogl was dolcgatcd by tho emperor em-peror of Japan to preside at tho function. func-tion. On his sldo tho cznr sont Qen. Oerugrno and Admiral Massovltcb, as well as Oen. Tchltchakov, commandant command-ant of tho troops of Harbin, and many ofllcors and privates, all cx-soldlers ot Port Arthur. Tho wounds and scars of conflict wero still to bo scon on them. |