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Show TO BURY AMERICANS NEAR BATTLEFIELDS WASHINGTON, May 28. Representative Representa-tive Moore of Pennsylvania told the house today that conditions beyond the control of the American military authorities made it impracticable for the war department to grant the request of relatives of fallen American soldiers that the bodies be returned re-turned to the United States for burial. He read a cablegram from General Pershing saying it was impracticable to embalm bodies in the theater of operations opera-tions and recommending that the United States government conform to the custom cus-tom of the allies in burying their dead near the field of battle. |