DEATH OF GEN. PERSHING

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25549, 17 July 1948, Page 7

DEATH OF GEN. PERSHING

U.S. ARMY LEADER IN 1914 18 WAR WASHINGTON,’JuIy 15. The death is announced oi General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War. He was 87. General Pershing’s death was caused by a bjood clot in a lung. He died in the Walter Reed Hospital, where he had been since 1938, suffering from generalised arterio-sclerosis. General Pershina will be buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington next Monday, in the seer tion in which the First World War dead rest. He was the last of the commanders of the armies in the First World War to die. President Truman. General

! Eisenhower, and General Marshall, who served under him in the First World War. to-day paid tributes to General Pershing. . General Pershing served in Jhe Apache Indian campaign in New Mexico and Arizona In 188'*. and in the Sioux camnaign in 1890 and ’391. He served with the 1011. Cavalry m the Santiago campaign in Cuba and also in the Philippines, where he I commanded military operation” against the Moros in central Mindanao. In 1905 and 1906 he was United States military attache in Tokyo, before returning to the Philippines for further service In 1916 he commanded the United States troops rent into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the Mexican popular leader. Created General of the Armies m the United States by Act of Congress in 1919. General Pershing had perhaps the greatest influence of any man on the building up of the modern Amez i • can Army. . , , After a distinguished career m France, General Pershing returned to America determined that his country would be prepared for another war. He made plans fo-’ establishing a regular armv of 280.000 men. and on his plans was founded modern American in snite of onrcsitir.n Yom pacifists. . General Pershing, retired in 1924.