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GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 40.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, June 28, 1915.

I.1. By authority of the President, a service badge with ribbon will be issued to officers and enlisted men who are in the military service of the United States on the date of this order, or at any time thereafter, and who served as officers or enlisted men in Cuba with the Army of Cuban Occupation between July 18, 1898, and May 20, 1902. The badge and ribbon will be issued as a part of the Army uniform, gratuitously to enlisted men, and at cost price to officers.

2. Organization commanders will prepare lists of all officers and enlisted men of their organizations who are entitled to this badge, giving first the names of officers in order of rank, and next those of enlisted men in alphabetical order, the lists to be in duplicate and in the following form:

List of officers and enlisted men of

the Army of Cuban Occupation badge.

entitled to

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I certify that the above-named officers and enlisted men of this organi

zation are entitled to the Army of Cuban Occupation badge for service as indicated.

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3. Heads of staff departments will submit similar lists of the officers and enlisted men of their respective departments whose service in Cuba entitles them to this badge.

4. The lists will be forwarded by post commanders directly to The Adjutant General of the Army, and upon their receipt in the office of The Adjutant General the statements of service of the officers and enlisted men named therein will be verified and the lists will be sent to the Quartermaster General of the Army, by whom the badges will be distributed.

5. When the service of an officer or enlisted man has not been honorable subsequently to his service with the Army of Cuban Occupation, he will not be listed for the badge, and if the service of any officer or enlisted man subsequently to the date of his being listed for the badge and previously to its issue to him, shall not be honorable, the proper commanding officer will notify The Adjutant General of the Army in order that the badge may be withheld.

6. The Army of Cuban Occupation badge will be sent by the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C., directly to the commanding officers of companies, troops, batteries, and detachments for issue by them to the enlisted men of their commands entitled thereto. The name of each enlisted man to whom a badge is issued, together with the serial number of the badge, will be promptly reported by post commanders directly to The Adjutant General of the Army.

7. The Army of Cuban Occupation badge will also be issued to such officers and enlisted men of the Organized Militia of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia as have had the necessary service to entitle them to the badge.

8. The sale of the Army of Cuban Occupation badge to former officers and enlisted men, now in civil life, whose service was honorable and who were in Cuba with the Army of Cuban Occupation within the dates specified in paragraph 1 of this order, is authorized. Blank forms of application for authority to purchase this badge may be obtained from The Adjutant General of the Army.

[1487707 G-A. G. O.]

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II. The following list showing zones of equal temperature for foreign cities is published to supplement paragraph 16, General Orders, No. 57, War Department, 1914:

Bogotá, Colombia, for the year round..

Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic:

December, January, February..
March, November..

April, May, October

June, July, August, September.

Copenhagen, Denmark:

December, January, February

March, November

April, May, October

June, July, August, September

Guatemala City, Guatemala, for the year round

The Hague, Holland:

December, January, February.

March, November

April, May, October......

June, July, August, September

Havana, Cuba, for the year round..

Nagasaki, Japan:

December, January, February.
March, November

April, May, October

June, July, August, September.

Philippine Islands, for the year round.

(Except Baguio and Camp Keithley, which are in Zone 12).

Santiago, Chili:

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June, July, August, September

Shanghai, China:

December. January, February.
March, November.

April, May, October

June, July, August, September

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Tien Tsin, China:

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III__With reference to the preparation of carbon copies of correspondence as prescribed in paragraph 16, General Orders, No. 23, War Department, 1912, a carbon copy of each request for authority to advertise made upon the prescribed blank forms will be forwarded, with the original of such request, for retention in the office of the Secretary of War. [2296625, A. G. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

H. L. SCOTT,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

H. P. MCCAIN,

The Adjutant General.

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