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Show TROOPS ABOUT TO RETURN. Volunteers In the Philippines Are Getting: Keady to Leave. Manila, Sept 3. Of the troops about to return to the United States, the Kansas Kan-sas men will leave on board the transport trans-port Tartar, the Washington regiment on board the Pennsylvania and the Nevada cavalry on the Ohio. All these departures will occur within the next j week. Fight hundred men of the Kan- j sas regiment will return and 200 will i remain at Manila, 150 of them re-en- 1 listing. Three officers and thirty men of the Kansans were killed and nineteen nine-teen officers aud men died from disease during the smallpox epidemic, while 122 members of the regiment were wounded . Of the Washingtons, S75 men are embarking, em-barking, while eight officers and 206 men will stay, most of the remaining-men remaining-men enlisting in the new regiments being formed here. One of the officers of the regiment was killed, one was wounded and one died from disease; twenty-four of the men were killed, 12S were wounded and nine died. |