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In a large part of them the tesCommander Adams also improved the opportunity to say. in timony which has been furnished by the claimants is not sufficient apparhis order: ently. and they have sentspe cial examiners into the field to get theltestimony the claimants are unable to gettestimony of parties of whom the Bureau The information that comes to these headquarters daily of comrades to- has knowledge but whose testimony the claimants are unable to get. These tally disabled whose pensions have been suspended. and of widows. whose are perhaps the largest class of cases. In all the other cases the testimony husbands were killed in battle. being suspended until they can prove that is doubtful andunsatisfactory. and we have to relxamine witnesses whose their husbands were naturalized citizens of the United States. leads the testimony has been presented. There is also a class of cases where the tescomnanderinchief to believe that the statement is broader than can be timony is suspicious. and to get other witnesses whose testimony would be substantiated by facts. If these wrongs actually exist. the commanderin necessary or which would show fraud. as the case might be.