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Show THREE AMERICANS KILLEDJN ACTUS General Pershing's Report Fails to Tell Where Er g'agement Occurred. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Genera! Pershing today reported three American infantrymen killed in action on January 21. He gave no details of the engagement. engage-ment. The dead are: Private Albert Cook; nearest friend, Delbert Coots, West Almond, N. Y. Private Harry V. Garman, Catawba, Va. Private Leo E. Radi. Cleveland, Ohio, The following- other deaths, not in action, ac-tion, were reported by General Pershing: Clarence M. Wiihelm, pneumonia; R. F. D. No. 2. Orass Valley. Cal. Thomas M. Coyne, meningitis, Cleburne. I Tex. Darwood B. Dickenson, pneumonia; Gooding. Idaho. : All were private soldiers. i These are tiie first reports of men killed in action in more than two months. In the opinion of army officers here the appearance ap-pearance of "killed in action" in the reports, re-ports, does not necessarily mean tliat American battalions have returned to front line trenches for further trainitif after an absence of some weeks, but that is the interpretation being placed on the news. For military reasons the war department depart-ment declined today to say whether a definite sector has been taken over by the Americans. Casualties resulting from participation by an American company in a reconnoit-ering reconnoit-ering party conducted by French troor or from a" chance hit by enemy artillery , among a party of dispatch riders wouM all be reported under the head of kilW . in action. Army officers pointed out , that occasional shells are exchanged al: I along the front for the purpose of rectify- 1 ing ranges or to demolish a troublesome L vantage point on the other side and tha' men killed as a result of such exchaii?yl are considered to have fallen in actior |