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Show II ALLIES CANCEL ' I ARMYCONISACTS; f TOURS. Thursday. Nov. 21 Con-' 'l tracts aggregating $1,000,000,000 have1 ij been cancelled by ihc American ex-' 'l. peditionary forces. In future the' $ American. British and French govern-! 1,' ments will pool their surplus stocks 1 ;fi and will buy through a common pur- i chasing agency. J Jpj Forty thousand American men en- tfj cjaged in the supply service will be J sent to advanced areas as replacemenf ; S j troops. The supply department wiil , P 1 continue its routine work, ft Forty -three construction projects & have been cancelled. Orders for 2,500 J ! locomotives. G1.000 railroad cars and n! hundreds of cranes, lugs, barges and LI corn-Jcs also have been recalled. The j !rm inert progia.ni has bten reduced1 iit terially. while the ordnance depart - I ment has been cut down by iwo-thirds. ! i I The reduction in the air service nasi' 1! not as yet been announced. ,1 |