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Show HiOElD mm ship Escort to Home Cemeteries Provided for Bodies of 1r 575 A, E. F. Men NEW YORK Aug 7. With the bodied of 1.676 American soldiers In I caskets below hor deck and 2 living khaki clad mon serving as attendants, the United States army transport Antigone Anti-gone arrived here today from Danzig, Antwerp, Brest and Bordeaux. The soldier dead were landed at the army pier where preparations were completed to forward their bodies to their last resting places In ' home cemeteries ' As has been th custom with all returned dead soldiers, sol-diers, each body will be aecompalned by a guard of honor At the pier there will be no ceremony or funeral , observance this last detail of honor on the part of the nation for which they fought having been completed when the bodies were consigned to I their temporary grave In foreign lands. |