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Show BRITISH SUPS 1 USED TOCARRY ! 0, S. TROOPS ABROAD NEW YORK, Nov. 26 A statement made here today from authoritative sources regarding the part British ships have played in the transporting . to Europe of tho American army, dls- closed that England may be compelled soon to use all of her available transports trans-ports for the return to their homes of troops of tho British empire. Thore are British troops to be rc .' turned from Mesopotamia, Italy and ; France to England, and there are Australian, Aus-tralian, Indian, African, Canadian and , other colonial forces to be returned w from France. Also thore are In Eng- M land and France thousands of women 9 and children, families of colonial ; troops who have married there 'ho M i i will require transportation. So great M will bo the demand on British vessels J for this service, it was said, that the m use of the ships for American over- M 1 seas forces may not bo possible to any 9 i great extent for some time to come. : Discussing what England has dono V toward moving American troops M abroad, it was authoritatively stated w here today that British vessels car- M js ried 1,080,417 American troops to jp England and France during the war from tho embarkation ports Qf New- port News, Baltimore, Philadelphia, m t New York, Boston, Portland, Me., and S Montreal and Quebec. Two hundred engineers wero the first to sail on a mt British vessel, departing May S. 191". M '. followed a few day later by General m ff Pershing and staff. , These voyages, 563 In number and a involving ISO British ships, tormin- v ated on September 31, 191S. The rpc- B ord was made by tho Olympic which transported 53,930 American troops. M Last July 1 88,560 were carried whlcn m g was the peak month. m Of the more than a million troops m .j carried,, fewer than 500 were lost m v through war mishaps. afljj' oo lit: |