AMERICAN DEAD TO BE BROUGHT BACK.
___O., ... Three-fourths of the American dead in France will find their final resting {lace in American soil. ‘Answering an inquiry from Senator Chamberlain as tc the wishes of relatives, General March, Chief of Staff, said it was estimated that replies from relatives thus "far {received showed not more than 25 per cent. had expressed a preference that the soldier’s body remain permanntly in France. \Vith more than four million soldier dead of Allied and enemy countries buried in French soil, General March said, that nation was desirous of proceeding slowly with the task of exliuxning those that are to go to their lands.
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Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1919, Page 8
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109AMERICAN DEAD TO BE BROUGHT BACK. Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1919, Page 8
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