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Show SPEED UP SHIPPING BACK AMERICAN DEAD Four Thousand Bodies Sent to the United States From France Each Month. Twenty thousand bodies of American soldiers v.l'10 fell In France either hnve been shipped to 11m United States or now are In process of being returned re-turned for burial In their native country. With 102 officer of live American army and a personnel of more thnn 2f.JO men working ulicrit and day In muny sections of Krance, tlie gracs registration service of tlie American ' army bun reached point where It 1 It poxslble to forward 4,000 bodies ' a month. The uork of fending back tlw roil bodies' designated for Interment Inter-ment In Amerlcu ?lll be completed by the end of next October, If ptescnt plans ure fulfilled. The bodies of the Americans hae been token from eery cemetery In the south of Krance. The greater part of the effort now Is being concentrated In the zone of the armies the Argon ne, etc. Kevciit-ccn bodice of American oldlers who died In Italy will be re-tiiou-d to the United Slates next month. The grnu-s registration xenlce now In uotklug In Ilerllu on arriingi-meiits for shipping the bodies of 130 American enldlcrs who are hurled In , unions parts of unoccupied Cennuny. This latter work was rendered verj dlllleult becmn-e the location of many of the Rriisea wiir uiikuonn. An expert Iihn been koIiiu mvt the German Ger-man liurlnl records In lterlln for sefernl weeks anil Irtiuilly all the 1 grnves have been found. The (Jer- muti Koeriiiueut bus afforded eer.v facllltj to the graes reKMratlOn oenhe. More than 20,000 hodlea will be -burled In the four.penoaneut ceuie teiles which the American eoterunient will maintain In Krance. Tlie fine arts commllon of the American wnr memorial council has arrived in I'arlu for a rlen of meetings meet-ings and a tour of Inppectloo of the permanent cemeterle. The eouimlSKlon liai In contemplation contempla-tion plan for a beautlflcatlon of the ceuiftrrle and will dtrmln (he character of headatonet to ba Hed and ibe general dacoratlve aAeru to be followed. The enwmlMlon will pruhaMy ciiniult with leading frenth landscape irtlnl. |