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Show I.-BODIES OF MS AMERICANSARE ; LflNDEDJT PIER Caskets Prepared for Shipment Ship-ment to Home of Parents .by Railroad GUARD OF HONOR FOR EACH COFFIN No Display or Ostentation as Funeral Ship Is Unloaded at Port V -NEW YORK, April 28. The bodies w of 353 American soldiers who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and humanity on foreign soil, and of whom all but eighty died in France, ( arrived here today on the army trans-, trans-, port -Mercury from Antwerp and Southampton. Their arrival marked the first return re-turn of soldier dead from France. The bodies of- four officers were aboard. Bodies Removed. As soon as the living passengers left . the Mercury, the bodies were removed from the hold and the caskets shrouded, shroud-ed, under the cover of new American flags, were arranged in company form ation on the same pier, where, but a comparatively short lime ago stood living, energetic, young Americans anxious to board the transports which carrjed them to the foreign shores where" they made the supreme sacri-Guard sacri-Guard of Honor. Under a soldier guard of honor the caskets .were prepared for shipment. homeby rail. Each body will be accompanied ac-companied by a uniformed guard of honorwho wjll remain with his charge A until , the casket is lowered into the finalrestlng place. At (he piers here there was no ceremony, cere-mony, nb'displny or ostentation save of the temporary pier morgue hidden j with the flags for which the men Hived and died. nn |