| Show american imas ove overseas I 1 se cas A F I 1 1 17 it ati tt i aria r all a our heroic dead are resting in peace godau in seven european Eu rODean countries I 1 a by y LLOYD ALLEN special staff correspondent cc ans 1619 a bf mu aaion america a dead sev I 1 enty it ty till thousand ad 1 in all 1 are b being el g well cared tor far here 1 in europe by a section act ot of the american esti expeditionary edit ry force face detailed to collect the I 1 he bodies old and pie place them in military cemeteries doi don lasmane nin giue for one no minute that this big bg undertaking Is ft a task that was neglected while the war was waa 1 tn pro freaa that the americans americana who war tell oil in battle tile were not interred a on a the battlefields halt aid some few cases haf have e been beat noted where both bodies 11 were ere found maidat no feehs suit after the fighting stopped top ad but these cal caseb are so few that they the cannot at be wi w I into con A ft hat la in being clone by the amauric american expeditionary force now J in the way of raring caring for far the dead la Is the second chapter the bodies are am being it dis interred from battlefield graves grain and ed to military monc cemeteries where the mounds are arranged row raw on row in even ranks that 1 in death the they con mav he be A as they were seem 1 an fn hf life shoulder hould cr to shoulder older above acarl grave B cross placed 0 on the cross 1 Is wd nailed led a birce ide identification tog tag giving the name and regiment around each ce menry cemetery a on substantial fence 1 la unclad erected ali above inch each mound Is a small replica of the stars stan and strip stripes 1111 1 three of 1 the at story will j b be a remains to be seen congress w will probably author the rotor return of all 11 bodies requested by the in mans a family yet even arm it if suh such a ruling I 1 is put lot into effect thousands of Anc american eban graves will viii rencia remain ll 1 in europe curme tor for the reason 1 that many will prefer as adi did d the roosevelt farally family to all allow mv little dead to rein re in heie bete tor for their final sleep in bost bevan r countries ag and they are resting in peace today in a sean european can countries tries england emlon th scotland atland ireland germany genially russia s italy luxembourg be but coul mainly aly I 1 in france antar near the aare sectors who where fl the a american bos boas did their that 1 valiant I hant and telling work in ill finishing up in the ove ger man n mv england has haa two o american aeme ceat 0 teries an one at 1 liverpool tic at with n ath 64 and the other at magdalen hlll hill winchester ak 1 hester with graves craves 1 in scotland there that ere are graves graven mainly of victims of the T tuscania Tu out ill dis aster ireland has 30 graves and illare there graves in italy dole russia los luxembourg Luxem minor bour a ind inal a small mail american won cemetery aberi at boblenz where a large deane detachment of the american army of occupation lo 10 n 1 la apt stationed 0 tied in germany proper it is ib the graves registration service that he has ahm charge of daymen till of I 1 the he american dead 1 in europe more than ihan 4 soldiers were assigned to only duty in this worries service which Is a breach branch of the bartl quartermaster s corpa that they not 1 only I y take up the dead in rz the battle comes but hue hall searched scorched all e of f france to limit find the few bodies that e es calad notice and were left camor led during the dav dava of actual W warfare error from froyen froan dugouts from ruined emitted houses borses shattered battered b bv shell hall fire and ams of isolated spats the bushe bodler were recovered prance france in the war all cone was literally combed and combed again 1 in order thit none be left laft arAh the argonne forest forert for far or ex ample the axt worst lighting fighting of the final weeks week of witt war took tooh place placa in thickets overy square kil kilmer mtr in ill the a argonne has haa been bee coie reil by tile the searching parties panic rima a whole be has bee been divided into A to 12 2 areas through which it the graves graies service rk there them A are in three advanced sections wad tia won nine other or areas which include bine base and ad int leplate sections sec tlona and the ills dis let tract et ot of po parla ria I 1 d kak 1 11 I 1 Is A V Z 16 ki N no 4 tm t u VW A ta ai aw wearing waiting 91 gas inake ike the workers let III dig a up p old graves as aa a matter or of duty dily and in a giant many fast instances they do much more or too than their ot duty y C consider 1111 for far lost instance a what was wai de wit with a cemetery of more than one ile thousand tho a and bodies at policy on rite alen A Is nc every eirv army order had been faith faithfully il y and carefully carried out inona I 1 he workers had made a ahm thorough a se search of the surrounding country abey 1 hey bad identified and ad burled the thousand bodies the graves were era mark marked c d oil off in regulation plots of wit with is ens cross 01 er each b gravel grant path were laid out through the cemetery I 1 according to regulations of the he G H R S S technically allt the job me liaa finished fic thad in workmanlike astle but tile soldiers wanted to do something more and trev the did dd they searched through th r many of tygh jagod He scrapped rapped metal a ot a salvage dump and collected iron iran rails calls they begged or borrowed content cement and then than thy built reinforced concrete wall round around the cemetery then they made ads n trip to a timber patch nearby I 1 found it the tallest and it st straightest e I 1 lightest tree cut it down stripped it of ar Inow branches elic pointed painted it white and ad planted PI led it in the middle of 0 the little cemetery for a flagpole ri flowers ere weve were fil planted lored around r load the base of the pole palo and old glor glory go atas swung lot into the breeze bodies to come coma H home it sit wai announced in the midst of if ill the war that the final ill d dispo p of if bodies mill be con considered allol r u d and rot executed as a an entire project it at such time probably after the cond conclusion ot of pence mia aa the vastness and difficulty of this aan st inconceivable task may moke make possible s there I 1 vas another announcement ili that cit ret return om of bodies to the united S states ter es wt will U be made in due title time except cut in cases boses where a spectra specific request in to its contrary Is made E excellent central lea alon of tad this graves registration work 4 is a feature or of the an effice efficient at filing sva tern man card rd led index stile 01 hia h iau hean instilled it maps have been bee made ad showing the tie I location thi ot of each graveyard these reloads are being kept at tours our they give the location of aien a grafl ach with ex attitude A at I 1 aisne aasne is located rated the I 1 largest of the american america battlefield rimie turie with more than I 1 1100 craves a the ne net I 1 cemeteries in order of size A are a nanell loio K fla fl a and ad frammi Frol dols in I 1 the h rear nor line areas the aro an located at bordell bordeaux Lambe ellec prior brest S are was S st t N ni dalre Isio island udon resume beaume allery allary corm com derev coate Cont asbille alle B cilles nod le AN mana no had q of f the gravel mail italian or via nt at T toura ou la kept IQ e mAla kepf formed donald be t w hire ire or of the fla e p of th the wark A As to enst BS as the hollies bodies nrc am am amov ed cd the I 1 information awro 1 la posted a on tile the recarda rite will while 1 e the amy waited to h hear from the wi t r department and coage con greBB re 4 it A X fow garding fload disposition of the dead rio bodies were ret returned it to america ho I 1 it was announced red here dc the die I 1 idea should not at get bout about I 1 tant of the graves registration service no was working n solely at fowling cub actual bodies left on the fald and ad 1 in the he tren trenches es after I 1 the h a rapid advances of tile the allied armies in as during the autumn of 1018 1918 virtually all of the attle b ittlefield dead were given burial within a very Y short time after the unless P perchance r a it was Ph physically cally new am impossible pass I 1 ble to p perform m the last at rites bile because the bol body 1 wip happened to be in lon a no a man alan s in land it raed by machine let A bario gun or rifle alre 1 hew first graves w ere made do wit as carefully A r cli eme cum at stances A 0 1 permitted even cven in the argonne amid and dundei brush and ad deep deed thickets the graves graces were made by careful squads that thai put pat oer ever each the areula tied cross cereas and identity to tag limbed german geman graves gaves adl undisturbed here in the argonne vector sector the german grow graves are thick it 1 Is difficult to tell while joure journeying 19 through the region whether a cross 1 Is meant to mark an allied mound or the grave of un an enemy soldier iny it in all I 1 france the most elaborate military agn graveyards cords are 1 in the st h salient near the town of st mh at where the german dead lie ile bur led fed beneath costly gm gravestones sto st resembling sem lem bling bilm monuments in a modem modean city calle cemetery tery LU dently the germans b beloved believed landa they were to hold these lands 8 forever army of 0 the german graves craves is ore nn marked with large headstones headst 0 on these thes stones are typical cemetery 6 alg ures such as grief pictured as a we weeping g 1 9 woman A B beaded wreaths entwined artificial biow flowers era le decorate most of the head hand stones stone untarnished I 1 billed b by y 1 wind I nal rate rain or a snow where appropriate there la is a replica of the iron iran crosa r ca 1 in black P possibly 1 bly half of the g graves aves are am so milked ike evelt eveir respect Is given ghen these cea miles by the allied led ormy army of certain tion than no wreath 1 Is to touched had and no BO head he aiMone t on reacted marred which in itself fur file camp comparison fact of allied and ger man riv methods ethoda since the germ germans 1 in am ganv 5 sections of A occupied fled france wait made a campion of ill dis hommr honoring led french cemeteries causette Jes by be tearing down dw d w artI gravestones and actually destroy ing the graves thill themselves alvas it will be ganv a day before all of athe the arm american an bodies have been bee moved ire from the roadsides and fields field or of france to th alie selected burial grounds it 1 la a cor certainty talty the frech mill ni niya always ya revere these spots p where american arl m when bodies are interred averred which bich are re minal ments to the american sacrifice mat crude frances france future ter fr from boche bache domination damnation the day yno has not at yet arrived when ban abed A american over in wines visitors can visit the A amerl 1 can cemeteries but it Is IK to be expert expect ed ad u unless ales co congress orders evem body removed mo ed in america that thousands will 1111 visit those these spots spot where rest in pence peace the azicri a A soldiers idle r who made ads the he supreme 1 to I 1 then their j country our there 1 Is A no had bad weather earlier sun ruskin oula different kinds of good wether each good gold for the e far or which it was sent bent the same nine in as lue of ull all diflo life asper asperilla imla the chat the id magale the sm mic alter less the ailing illa hops hope and the flip earn each la Is good gold for the purpose that hot brought it |
