Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1919 — FRANCE FORBIDS RETURN OF U. S. DEAD. [ARTICLE]

FRANCE FORBIDS RETURN OF U. S. DEAD.

Paris, Nov. 24. —The 65,000 U. S. American dead in France must be left in the graves they now occupy until the French are ready hume their" own dead, which a expected will he before January 1, 19 The foreign office has promised, to consider the latest request ofthe American government for the return of its fallen soldiers, but later the following official announcement was “It has been definitely decided that the allies who fell together for the same cause should remain together itn death until circumstances permit of the returning of the bodies to the families for whom they sacrificed themselves. The proposed law forbidding the exhumation of the tidier dead for three years did not pass at thesjast session of the chamber of deputies, dmt the foreign office that it will be adopted soon. This bill specifies a delay in exhumation of three years from the promulgate on of the law, but it is expected that this period will he shortened.