The Archive · 1939

Gen. Pershing Ill

Former U.S. C.-in-C. in Bed With Old Ailment

Paris, July 16.

Gen. John Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the Great War, has been confined to bed with an attack of an old stomach ailment since Friday, it was disclosed last night.

Gen. Pershing suffered the attack during a motor car trip through the French battlefields early Friday. He is staying at an hotel in Aixen province and has postponed his return to Paris for a few days because of

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