Authorizing the Appointment of a Commission to Remove the Bodies of Deceased Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, from Foreign Countries to the United Stat (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...il in the limited time that you gentlemen have to consider this matter, and, therefore, I will hasten along with a view to giving an opportunity to the two witnesses who have been kind enougli to come here to testify on this important question. As stated by the chairman, I have just returned fv tm France. While there I undertook to make an invandstigation with a view to ascertaining if it was feasible and possible to bring home the bodies of the deceased soldiers that aie buried in France and elsewhere. I visited a number of the graves and a number of the cemeteries. W have more than 75,000 s ldiers buried in France, and they are in 829 cemeteries. We took the testimony of Maj. Shipman, of the Graves Registiation Service, in Paris, in order to get the details with reference to this subject. Mr. HotjOHTOS. You say you took testimony on the subject? Mr. Bland. Yes. Mr. Houghton. Before what body? Mr. Bland. Before the Committee for the Investigation of Expenditures of the War Department. Maj. Shipman showed himself to be quite familiar with the subject, and he was in charge of that office there. D, l, z. dbyc00giC Mr. HudDLESTON, Have you had the hearings on that subject printed? Mr. Bland. Yes. Mr. Hdddleston. Have they been sent to the Meiiibei-s? Mr. Bland. I take it that they have, Thos e who have signified their wishes to have copies of the hearings of those subcoinmitteba on war expenditures have them on their desks, or I andn so informed by the chairman of the general committee, Mr. Browne, That is Mr. Graham? Mr. Bland. Yes. In connection with this inve. stigation, the facts were brought out with reference to the area covered by these cemeteries, and I found that they were scattered all over ihe whole of France. Some of the graves...