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Show ARTILLERY COMPANIES Ordered to Depart for the Philippine Islands New York, May 2. The Eleventh and Eighteenth compantos of coast artillery ar-tillery now stationed nt the coast de-I de-I fense forts In New York harbor, have J been ordered to Manila, where they I are to become a part of the Correfjd- dor Island fortifications. The men of I tho companies are known as th best const artillerymen on the Atlantic and stand high among tho crack marksmen marks-men of tho world. Twenty picked companies of coast artillery are to be sent to the Far Ea6t by the war department in pursuance pur-suance of its determination to make the Corrcgldor fortifications as powerful power-ful as any in that section of the world The New York men will bo the first to go. |