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Show No Burials at Sea. Washington, June 4. Kequests have come to the war department that no persons dying on transports coming to or going from the United States to Manila shall be buried at sea. The secretary sec-retary of war has taken this matter up and an order to that effect has been issued. is-sued. For this purpose it has become necessary to detail an expert embalmer for duty on each transport. The department de-partment has a sufficient number of these men already in the service and assignments have been made. |