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Show NO DISBANDING OF ARMY. Big American Military Machine Must Operate for Some time. Washington. Signing of the armistice armis-tice witli Germany, which brings the world war to an end, does not moan that the great American military machine ma-chine will cease to operate at once. America must play an important part in disarming and guarding the enemy and until this work is completed even the troop movement to France will continue, altlo-jgh on a greatly reduced re-duced scale. During the interval between the cessation of hostilities and the conclusion con-clusion of the peace conference it is assumed that the major portion of General Pershing's expeditionary forces in France must be retained there. It is possible also that for reasons rea-sons of international politics some American garrisons may be kept in disputed territory even after actual peace negotiations have been closed. |