Mistakes in announcing'casualties are not_ confined to any nation,'if the following story from America is coj-rcct. The Omtwl Stiiccs War Depnitiiicnt, informed Sirs. Mary Sullivan, of New York, on November G, Mint her son, Private James Sullivan, of the Marine Corps, died from disease in France on October 3. Mrs. Snllivnu replied that her son was not dead. In proof of her statement she submitted tiici fnllowin , .". —First., her most recent letter from her son reported hj-;i perfectly well Second, lie isn't in Kraiwe at all, but stationftd:at'Quaniieo, Virginia.■ Third, if lv died on Oet i-T .'} hci-jscjit '.it concealed froinliis'inothor, for lie was home on fiii'loush on thnt tins.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 6
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109Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 6
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