Show AMERICAN DEAD TO REMAIN OVERSEAS CONGESTION OF TRANSPORTS TION SYSTEM SYSTEM AND SHORTAGE OF MATERIAL A HANDICAP Between and Heroes of the World War Warto to Remain In Foreign Foreign For For- eign Gr Graves ves While Bodies of V V 5 0 Will be Returned Wasl Washington Tile The The bodies of about of the tha American dead in France will be returned to the United States while between and will remain per permanently interred overseas Secretary B Baker er kr has Informed Chairman Chair Chair- man loan Wadsworth of the tIle senate enate military committee The Tile secretary who wrote In response response to a senate resolution estimated estimated CS- CS es es- the cost of ot returning the dead and concentrating the bodies remainIng remaining remain remain- ing log in ill cemeteries overseas overseas at ut OOOO- OOOO Congestion of tIle the French transportation transports transports- tion systems sj stems and shortage of materials used in the manufacture of coffins Ishan is han handicapping the work Mr Baker said fald V While bodies of American dead have hae been from Archangel Secretary Baker said the same number num nurn- ber her still remain In northern Russia and that it was improbable that anything anything any any- thing tiling could be done toward their their removal removal re re- re- re moval nl for for fors a year jear ear Evacuation of bodies in Iii England is progressing he he ie added while In Italy all aU bodies bodIes' lUH have beeT been concentrated read ready for r return tu n t to this country |