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Show ) BAKER MAKES STATEMENT, I WASHINGTON, April 2. In formal-ly formal-ly announcing today the discontinuance discontinu-ance of the war department's system of telegraphing casualty lists to San Francisco and Chicago for mail distri- j butioit by the press associations, Sec-re'tsrj Sec-re'tsrj Baker made this statement It is with profound gratitude that j we approach the end of the American J expeditionary force casualty lists j grateful that the price of victory, in 'huinriu life and limb, was not greater. The wai department has been con- j j scions of this splendid public service ! the newspaper press has been Tenderling Tender-ling to the people by the prompt and I accurate publication of th- casualty j lists from day to day, that the supreme j 'sacrifices made by officers and men I of our forces abroad mic,hi 1. known 1 . to their friends and relatives at home." I |