Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1920 — FIRST 100 BODIES TO U. S. APRIL 5 [ARTICLE]

FIRST 100 BODIES TO U. S. APRIL 5

Brest, March 31.—The first body of an American soldier who died in France was exhumed from, French soil here yesterday at the Pontanezeu camp cemetery. The graves officials will have 100 bodies ready for shipment to America by April 5, the date on which a transport has been requested from the Navy Department. It is expected that the transport Antigone, which sailed from Danzig yesterday bearing homeward happy, healthy PolishAmerican veterans of the anny of Gen. Haller, will call at Brest to take the bodies aboard.