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Show i i ! Carrying On With the S American Legion ' i The 53 Americans who received th Congressional Medal of Honor will eaol receive the Italian war cross, Genera Zaccarl, chief of staff of the Itallar army, has announced. The National Guard of the country with an enrolled strength of 132. 00( men, has reached a point only sllghtij below that of the nation's regulai army. During the war the British Rer Cross collected $95,000,000. of whicl J70.5O0.0O0 was expended. The mem bershlp was 120,000. Womeu memben numbered 90,000. a A proposal has been made In Wash Ington that the President give an American flag to the next of kin ol tach deceased soldier whose body 1: not returned from France, i The Congressional Medal of Honoi !aid upon the tomb of Great Brltnin'i Tinknown soldier will be encased In f glass-fronted box and affixed to th tomb, according to the wish of thi lean of Westminster Abbey. The annual report of the conimls gioner of pensions discloses on lb ' rolls the names of G4 widows of tin War of 1812; 100 soldiers and 2,151 I widows of the Mexican war and 3.7S1 sold'ers and 2,500 widows of Indiai 1 outbreaks prior to 1S91. World wa I veteran are not mentioned ia th' wpori I |