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Show Honors to Russian Dead : Japanese Have Converted the Field of Mukden Into a Beautiful Cemetery. A recent traveler through Manchuria Man-churia gives us a picture and a description de-scription of the great cemetery which the Japanese have nearly completed and which some time ago they consecrated conse-crated to the Russian dead who fell In the battles about Mukden. In their precipitate retreat the armies of the czar left thousands upon thousands of their fallen comrades com-rades unburied. After' the signing of the treaty of peace the soldiers of the Mikado collected every last bone and every bit of- ragged uniform and every broken weapon which the Russians Rus-sians had left upon the field and buried them with soldierly honors. In the center of this vast plat they Inclosed by a white marble fencing a reserved space for those who had evidently evi-dently been officers. Over the graves of the common soldiers sol-diers Iron crosses, in the Greek form, were erected and over the graves of commanders crosses of white marble. Then as a pivot to the . converging lines they reared a terrace, and on the terrace built a marble temple, all at a cost of 50,000 yen. When the work was ready for dedicatory rites, they invited Russian ecclesiastics from Peking. Harbin and Vladivostok, together with such military commanders command-ers as were near, to assemble for re- I liglous service in this chapel, where, amid the assembled men of both races, the land was solemnly consecrated conse-crated as a resting place for the Russian Rus-sian dead. We think we have not done badly when fifty years after the battle ol Gettysburg we Invite the surviving Confederates to meet us where they fought us, and with their northern fellow citizens give thanks today for a united country. But the "Japs" have bettered as well as anticipated our act For within five years of the battle of Mukden they laid out the field aB a cemetery for their conquered con-quered enemies, buried them decently, decent-ly, had religious rites celebrated by priests of their own faith, and paid personal tribute to the courage and loyalty of the men 'they had vanquished. van-quished. All this without one word ol suggestion from outside. The Ad vance. |