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Show FRENCH MEDALS FOR YANKS Special Commemorative Emblem to Be Presented to Ail Americana Who Served. All Americans who served overseas as members of units of the French command during the World war are to receive a handsome decoration from the French government, to be known as the French commemorative medal. Distribution will be made from the office of the French military attache at Washington. It Is estimated that from ten to fifteen thousand Americans Ameri-cans are entitled to the medal. Since they are scattered all over the country, coun-try, the French government has appealed ap-pealed to the more than eleven thousand thou-sand posts of the American Legion to publish the news of the medal offer to eligible veterans. The medals are to go to all American Ameri-can citizens who served, during the World war, as members of the French army and navy ; as physicians, nurses, pharmacists or administrators In French sanitary units between August 2, 1914, and November 11, 1918? as members of relief agencies under French command, and as motor drivers, operators and secretaries In the regular organizations of the French armies. |