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Show General Pershing Too Busy to Join In Celebrations WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 Due o many pressing matters, General Pershing Persh-ing will be unable to make at this limp his planned visit to his boyho. tl home in Missouri and has declined all of the invitations which havo been tendered him. This was made known today in the lollowinc formal -n- immi wmii taemr jcw M I pounecment Ifsued at the war department depart-ment : 'General Pershinc finds so manv import, mt matters pressing for hi personal per-sonal attention that he will be unable to go west at this time and he will b5 compelled, therefore, to decline all cf the invitations with which he has been honored He has been highly gratified grati-fied by the welcome tenderpd him and keenly regrets that he cannot accept tho hospitalit of ihe cities and towns which have so cordially urged him to be their guest. ' General Pershing probably will go to some quiet place where he can finish fin-ish his final report and study plans tot the re-orqanization of the armv as requested b members of congress end the war department. ' |