Major NEWMANasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that the bodies of those of the American Expeditionary Force who fell in France and Belgium are to be conveyed back to the United States for burial; and is it intended that, with due regard to the greater difficulties that often exist, permission shall be given for the reburial in the land of their birth of our own dead?
Captain GUESTI am unable to say whether the Government of the United774W States intends to carry out this proposal; but as my hon. and gallant Friend is aware, there is a large difference between the number of American dead and the number of dead of the British Empire. If permission to exhume bodies for subsequent re-interment in all parts of the Empire is given to some, it must be given to all, and I am sure it will be realised that such a proposal is quite impracticable.