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Major M. W. Wood, the chief surgeon of the 

 First Division, said: "The army must be moved 

 North/' adding, with emphasis, "or it will be un- 

 able to move itself." 



General Ames has sent the following cable mes- 

 sage to Washington : 



CHARLES H. ALLEN, Assistant Secretary of the 



Navy: 



This army is incapable, because of sickness, of 

 marching anywhere except to the transports. If 

 it is ever to return to the United States it must do 

 so a once. 



