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Show MAY SPEED RETURN OF AMERICAN DEAD WASHINGTON", Aug. 0. Apparently Apparent-ly there is no French law prohibiting the removal of the bodies of American soldier dead from Vreneh soil "for a period of three years from January 1, lSUil. "' The house foreign affairs committee com-mittee had been informed that such a law existed, but Secretary Lansing wrote Chairman Porter today that while a bill along this line had been introduced in the French chamber of deputies it had not yet been acted upon. The foreign affairs committee has be- i fore it a. resolution proposing the im- j mediate return of the bodies of the i American soldiers killed in the war. |