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Show PERSHING PREPARING FOR EARLY RETURN WASHINGTON, July 13. Preparations for the early return of General Pershing and his personal staff from France is indicated, army officials said today, in recent dispatches from abroad. Crating of the voluminous records of the expeditionary expedi-tionary forces at the Central Records office of-fice has been practically completed, and shipment to a seaport is about to begin. Army orders have been Issued conferring upon Major General Allen, new commander com-mander of the American forces on the Rhine, many of the prerogatives held by General Pershing. Reports of friction between General Pershing and General March, chief of staff, were declared today to be Without foundation by war department officials. |