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Show 1 roop Travel 3 Times I Rate of 1917 in U. S. ' WASHINGTON. Movements ol troops in tlie first nine months ol war for the United States have been three times as large as in the corresponding cor-responding period in the last war, tlie war department said. Military travel now exceeds 700,000,000 passenger pas-senger miles a month. Secretary Stimson, who made the announcement, declined to speculate on any comparison between the movement cf troops abroad in the same periods in the First World war and the present coe. i i |