Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — WANTS SOLDIER DEAD HERE. [ARTICLE]

WANTS SOLDIER DEAD HERE.

Washington, June 17.—Declaring that it is an outrage to keep the bodies of American soldiers in French soil in' opposition .to the wishes of parents and other near relatives of the deceased heroes, Representative Will R. Wood, republican, of the tenth Indiana district, has introduced a resolution to put congress on record as requesting France to repeal or modify an existing Frejjch statute which prevents the exhutnation and removal of bodies. “As long as this French law stands in the way it will be impossible to 1 bring any of the bodies home,” said Wood. “The administration has taken a view which apparently harmonizes with the French statute. It is a Ipng way across the water to the graves of the sons and brothers and sweethearts and husbands who died fighting for civilization. A great many will never be able to afford the trip to the remains of those who were the most precious thing in life to them. Why should they lie there in a foreign land and among strangers when our ships might bring them home to rest in our cemeteries where for all future time our children might on Memorial day and at other times visit them and pay proper respect to their memory?”