Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — PERSHING DENIES MAIL DELAY [ARTICLE]

PERSHING DENIES MAIL DELAY

Washington, Feb. 11.- I—General 1 —General Pershing has cabled the war department denying reports that mall to and from the American expeditionary force had become congested at French rail heads. The general said there was no .delay or accumulation of mail for the United Stages and no accumulation of correctly addressed mail arriving In France for the soldiers. General Pershing said there were 1,210 sacks of Incorrectly addressed mail at the central army postoffice in France being redirected, while only 126 sacks of dead letters had been shipped to the United States during’ January. The incorrectly addressed mail at the central office, he said, “oouW be placed in one American car.” General Pershing quoted from a report made to him toy Colonel Howe, director of the postal express service, which said “flrst-claBS mail moves on sdheduled passenger trains and reaches present rail heads of army of occupation in six days from time of arrival in France.”