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Show NEARING END OF CASUALTY LISTS WASHINGTON, April 2. Informally announcing an-nouncing today the discontinuance of the war department's system of telegraphing casualty lists to San Francisco and Chicago Chi-cago for mail distribution by the press associations, Secretary Baker made this statement: "It is with profound gratitude that we approach the end of the American expeditionary expedi-tionary force casualties grateful that the price of victory, in human life and limb, was not greater. The war department has been conscious of the splendid public service ser-vice the newspaper press has been rendering ren-dering to the people by tho prompt and accurate publication of the casualty lists from day to day, that the supreme sacrifices sacri-fices made by officers and men of our forces abroad might bo known to their friends and relatives at home." |