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Show MAY SHIP MEN TO ENGLAND. Would Relieve Congestion at French Receiving Port Washington. In view of Uie difficulty diffi-culty in finding ships to put American fighting power in France, General Bliss, representing the United States at the supreme war council, Is considering consider-ing with British officials Uie advisability advisabil-ity of starting a flow of American battalions bat-talions through the British training system to front line trenches in Flanders. It was learned Tuesday that a proposal pro-posal has been made that 150 battalions battal-ions be assigned for such training. Congestion at the American debarkation debarka-tion ports in France lies back of the suggestion. By diverting units to British Brit-ish ports and finally transferring them to General Pershing's army, it has been urged that many men could be put on the firing line who otherwise could not be sent forward for months. |