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Show WANTS MILITIA TO . , GUARD SEACOAST WASHINGTON. : March 15.--Letters ', . have been sent by ' Assistant Secretary ; Oliver of the War' department, to tho j Governors of alt Seaboard States, asking I their ro-operation in the development of i the War department's plan for the train- . ing- of an effective coast guard, through : the operation of organized militia In con- i " -nectlon with the regulars - assigned to ; coast artillery service.-? . ; v The leters were accompanied hy clrcu 'I lars prepared by the chief of artillery, set- 1 . ting forth his plan to set aside portion ; of the State troops in all the coast States for artillery review, the State troops to '. have each year from seven to ten days of J training at an artillery post under the ; direction of tUe reguUfi ',- - |