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Show NEW POLICY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT PUT INTO EFFECT 1 WASHINGTON. May 16. Issuance of official communiques by General Pershing I puts Into practice the recently announced I policy of the war department that all news" of the operations of the American expeditionary forces must come from American headquarters in France. The daily communique will supersede a weekly week-ly review of military operations by Secretary Sec-retary Baker, which was discontinued a fortnight ago. Secretary Baker, on his visit to the American troops in France, discussed the subject with General Pershing and at that time issued an order that all news regarding the expeditionary forces in France must come from Pershing's headquarters. head-quarters. Practically the only news since t hen of the activities of t he A merlcan forces? has reached the folks at homo through newspaper dispatches. For a time the issuance here of American casualty cas-ualty liets was stopped on a misunderstanding misunder-standing of the order, but later the listB were resumed. While a number of reports are received re-ceived dally at the war department from General Pershing, no military information informa-tion other than the casualty lists is made public here. Reference in the initial communique to the success of American fliers wan the first official intimation received here that American squadrons are patrolling sectors sec-tors held by General Pershinr or by his troops jointly with the British and French. Il is taken as evidence of the completion of at least part of the aviation avia-tion programme. |