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Show HONOR DEAD IN MANILA. Memorial Day la Observed by the American Soldiers, i Manila, Juno 1. Memorial day was celebrated at Battery Knoll, where Scott's guns wcreantod against the Filipino trenches in tho first day's fighting at Manila. 'Nearly 300 soldiers sol-diers llo burled there on a bleak mound, surrounded by rice fields, rough boards marking tho graves, which aro ranged flvo unbroken rows. Beyond theso aro Spanish blockhouses and bamboo hedges, which wero mown by shells from tho American guns. , Tho few soldiers who could be spared from tho trenches iimo to Battery Knoll, dusty and brouzed, bearing flowers with whlclj to strew their comrades' grave. A silk flag was placed abovo each grave. Just as tho Sixth i&tlllcry band began be-gan a dlrgo the thunder of Monad-nock's Monad-nock's guns ceased,' whllo tho taps sounded from tho bugle. Charles Dcnby of the United States Philippine commission presided at tha exercises. He spoke briefly of tho peculiar pe-culiar solemnity of ,lho day to Manila. Tho chaplain of tho British cruiser Powerful rnado an invocation. Chaplain Chap-lain Picrco of tho Twenty-third infantry in-fantry and Chaplain Crcsscy of tho MinnessoU volunteers delivered orations ora-tions and the soldiers sang appropriate hymns. After taps had been sounded the soldiers took tho flag from the grounds to send to relatives of the dead. |