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Show CASUALTY LISTS TO CDI!TAI!I ADDRESSES Controversy Finally Settled ; Adjutant General to Make the Names Public. WASHINGTON'. May 2. The war department de-partment will resume tomorrow publication publica-tion of the home addreaaee of men reported re-ported on the casualty list from France. Orders to that effect have been issued and the list given out tomorrow morning will be in the old form followed prior to Secretary Baker's instruct ions sent from France early in April. This action means that it has been determined de-termined that any military information the enemy might gain from the lists would not be of sufficient value to Justify the added anxiety among the relatives of soldiers occasioned by suppression of this aid to positive identification. It ends a controversy that was waged in congress for a time, which caused an open rupture of friendly relations between the war department de-partment and the committee on public information and which President Wll-Hon Wll-Hon himself was called upon to take a band In settling When the department began issuing casually lists without addresses, the committee com-mittee on public information refused to handle them, on the ground that they were of no news value in that form. Since then the lists have been made public by the adjutant general's office direct. Army officials are inclined now, it Is understood, un-derstood, to continue with the present arrangement, ar-rangement, holding that the committee went wholly out of Its proper field in refusing re-fusing to handle the limited lists. |