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Show i ''I a 1 -. " ' " . it I I Cantonments to be Abandoned ?" ' Washington. Decision to withdraw from the cantonments at Camp Lewis, Wash., and Camp Dix, N. J., the troops composing the divisions now stationed at those posts and to scatter scat-ter the units in the permanent army posts within the two corps srens has been reached by the war department. The decision was mado in connection with a prolonged study of the distribution dis-tribution of the regular army on a Stisis to provide at the same time for economy of operation and efficiency in training. The two cantonments which nre to be evacuated will he. retained re-tained for training and storage purposes,' pur-poses,' but with 'only caretuking detachments de-tachments quartered at the posts. |