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Show SICK AND WOUNDED YANKS WILL COME HOME RAPIDLY HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERICAN AMERI-CAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES IN FRANCE. Nov. 26 (By the Associated Press). Reports by the medical department depart-ment show that the homeward movement of convalescent. sick and wounded American soldiers is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily, and when it is at full tide it probably will aggregate several thousand men daily. This will soon remove from France all Americans in hospitals, able to travel. For those who are forced to remain there will be a surplus of accommodations. There are today in France nearly 300,-000 300,-000 beds. Many of the American hospitals hos-pitals are In the most pleasant portions of Franco. The base hospitals are organized or-ganized to perform any variety of medical medi-cal or surgical work, the hospital centers cen-ters bfing divided Into groups, each hospital hos-pital devoted to specific classes of injuries in-juries or diseases. The total number of nurses on duty for the American expeditionary forces exceeds ex-ceeds houu. There are nearly 13,000 doctors doc-tors in attendance. When the armistice was declrirod there was In process of construction fur an expected ex-pected lengthy campaign over 425.000 beds for hospitals. The work on these has been suspended. |