Show OFFICERS x- x AND MEN STILt STILL 1 AMONG MISSING cl of Bodies Discloses Dis 15 closes Additional J Identification Ident for Records it I i Wa Washington March 27 General T.-General General 1 PershinG reported to the war oar department depart depart- ment today that there are still officers officers and men o of the expeditionary forces listed as missing This total official figures figures fig fig- 4 compares with the British ures of missing maid the trench French FrenchI I of ot been re rc reported rc- rc All AU of the tho names have ported in cas casualty alt lists already al already al- al I said Re Re- r ready ad published the report interments of bodies from isolated graves ra in the centralized les lesIs r I Is furnishing additional identification In a nUJ number bel o of caseb ase And for this s I I i. i reason the tho ho records ot of the grave Bravo rt-K- rt I t service arc t rc being carefully studied 1 V nC ll Ite Crave c examination Re-examination of grave registration registration tion reports and also of hospital records referred to by General Pershing ing was said by officials at the war department to to explain tho the killed In Inaction Inaction inaction action and wounded in action casualties cas cas- casualties still appearing In the daB dally daily casualty lists sent out by the depart cp t- t ment The British war office General Pershing's report said had adopted the tho policy of considering twenty six weeks t J In tho the case of an office and thirty weeks for an enlisted man a as tho the length of time after atler the thc man had hall been recorded as missing before death I Is presumed In the French arm army ho he said no definite period had been fixed M No accurate estimate of unreported im deaths can bo be given ghen said General th how how- J report There are arc r 1 ever approximately missing to bo be accounted for all of of whom have been reported to Washington as missing o of bodies removed from isolated graves Ira to centralized come come- i t is furnishing additional Identification identification of deaths hitherto reported as missing 1 7 Hospital Inaccurate Deaths of American soldiers in r f French Trench hospitals of oC which only meager and and often otten Incorrect records ai are arc o on file tile arc are likewise disclosed b by reburial of these bodies resulting in complete completo Identification Access to sites of prison camps In InGerman Germany German and to territory formerly within enemy's lines I Is leading to discovery discovery dis dis- Is- Is covery ery of or man many American graves braves and identification of or casualties previously reported as missing Each company compan or other unit of or the American expeditionary force have hayo heretofore been furnished a complete list of of officers fleet a and anil men carried as 38 missing up tip to February t. t All units are required to display such list In places accessible to member of oC command com corn mand fort for I the purpose of or securing casualty Information from irom every eYen pos- pos r s source source Method TIt hinders I f- f C Consideration should be given to I fact tact that method of warfare as well 4 as as the extent of or terrains fought ht over o rr lent exceptional difficulties to I cry r ry and burial of or dead Burial parties I frequently comp completed eted their mission p. p tv under hta heavy fire Ire nn and often this could t only be done under cover er of or darkness thus making Identification difficult and often Impo Impossible Grave registration lion tion and chaplain reports are arc again In Instigated A small percentage of or such reports Investigated arc proving pro to be bo cases catiE S Sor of or American dead previously f ported as such As rapidly aa as v I can be completed from information mati nation mation on originally filed or subsequently tr r obtained from flom eve every possible source T correct pres present nt status of or each cach case caso is t being reported by cable I |