Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-05-23

NANA1A y ttA3 -
N enty thousand In all-nre
EAWI being well cared for here
&E9J In Europe by a section OF
the American expedltlonary
force detailed to collect the bodies and
place them In military cemeteries.
Don't Imagine for one minute that
this big undertaking Is n task that was
neglected while the war w. n prog
ress that the Americans Who fell
bnttlehelds. Some few cases hive
been noted where bodies were found
unburied weeks after the fighting
stopped but these cases are so few
that they cannot be taken into con-
slderatlon.
What Is being done by the American
expedltlonary force now In the way
OF caring for the dead Is the second
chapter. The bodies are being dis
Inferred from battlefield graves and
carried TO military cemeteries where
the mounds arc arranged row on row
In eve ranks. that In death they may
be as they we're In llfe-shouldcr TO
shoulder. Above each grave n cross
Is placed. On the cross is nailed n
zinc Identification ting. giving the name
and regiment. Around each cemetery
a substantial fence Is erected. Above
each mound Is n small replica Of the
Stars and Stripes.
What chapter three OF the story will
be remains to be seen. Congress will
probably authorize the return ~ nil
bodies requested by the mans family.
Yet even II such n ruling is put into
effect, thousands OF American grnvep
will remain In Europe for the reason
that many families will prefer-ns did
the Roosevelt family-to allow their
dead TO remain here for their final
sleep.
In Seven Countries.
And they are resting In peace today
in seven European countries: ENGLAND
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Russia
Italy, Luxembourg, but mnln'y IN
France near the sectors where the
American boys did their valiant ant
telling work IN finishing up the Ger
man army.
England has two American GENE
tories: one NJ Liverpool with o.
graves, and the other Mt Mne,laleI
Hin, winchester, with go Xnvcs.
In Scotland there are coo rrnves
mainly of victims 'f the ruscanln dis
aster.
Ireland hns 30 graves. and there ar'
grnvcs IN italy, Russsl, Luxembourg
and a small Av,erscsa cemetery a
Coblenz, whore n large detachment o
tho American army Of occupation
stationed In Germany proper.
II IS the "Grnves RVgistratiol
Service" that has charge OF classlhcf
ton Of the American dead In Europ,
More than 1900 soldiers were nsslgne
70 duty la this service, which Is
branch of the Qunrtermnster's corps
They not only take up the dead In IN
battle zones, but have searched all O
France 10 md the few bodies thnt e.
capped notice and were left unburle
during the days OF actual warfar'
From frozen dugouts. from RUNE
houses shattered by shell irA an
thousands OF Isolated spots the bodiS
were recovered. France, In the wa
zone. was literally combed and combe
again IN order that none he left.
Through the Argonne forest, for O.
ample, the worst fighting OF the hnl
weeks Of war took place In thlcket
Every square kiiometer IN the Argonr
has been covered by the searchlr
parties.
France as a whole has been divide
into 10 areas through which Il
Graves Registration Service" work
There are three advanced sections M
nine other areas. which include bAi
and intermediate sections and the dl
trict Of Paris.