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Show Krst Battalion Philippine Scouts. WASHINGTON. Dec . The President has directed that the Fourth. Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fourth, Thirtieth and Fortyeseventh i companies. com-panies. Filipino scouts, r.ow t the Louisiana Louis-iana Purchase exposition, ft. Louis, be organised as a fcjirtalion of Infantry to be designated the First battalion. Philippine Philip-pine scouts. Ca.pt. William H. Johnson, Sixteenth Infantry, ha been detailed aa Major, Philippine scouta, and assigned I oonunand the battallosv i |