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Show Seventy-sixth Division Arrives at French Port and Is Now Embarking for the United States. Units to Remain in England En-gland Are Few of Medical Med-ical Service and the Staffs of Rest Camps. NEVT YORK, Xov. 26. Although the British government may be compelled to use virtually all its available transports for . the return of Mis own and colonial troops, arrangements for the early transportation trans-portation home of approximately 40,000 American troops on British ships lue , been effected. It was learned tonight In, authoritative British quarters. This in- ! eludes 12,000 who thave been training In j England and who have already embarked for home on British transports. There are British troops to be returned from Mesopotamia, Italy and France to England, and there are Australian, Indian, In-dian, African, Canadian and other colonial co-lonial forces to be returned from France. Aiso there are in England and France thousands of women and children, fami-j fami-j lies of colonial troops who have mar-I mar-I ried there, who will require transporta-1 transporta-1 tion. So great will be the demand on British vessels for this service, it was said, that the use of ships for American overseas forces may not be possible to any great extent for some time to come. BRITISH CARRY OVER MILLION DURING WAR. . Discussing what England . has done toward moving American troops abroad, It. was authoritatively stated here today that British vessels carried 1.0S0.417 American troops to England and France during the war, from the embarkation ports of Newport News, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, New York, Boston, Portland, Me., and Montreal and Quebec. Two hundred hun-dred engineers were tho first to sail on a British vessel, departing - May 8, 1917, followed a few days later by General Persiiing and staff. These voyages, 663 in number and Involving In-volving ISO British ships,, terminated on September 31, BUS. The record was made by the Olympic, which transported 53.-930 53.-930 American troops. I-ast duly, lSS,yi0 wero carried, which yas the peak month. Of the more than a million troops carried, car-ried, fewer than 00 were lost through war mishaps. U. S. DIVISIONS WILL DISPLAY LITTLE OF OLD RESEMBLANCE WASHr.VGTOX. Nov. '26. News from France today that 1 the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth divisions, which have been fighting with the British Fourth army, have In en withdrawn, with only approximately approxi-mately 1,500 otficors and men in each, dors not mean that tbrso organizations have been redun;iJ to U-s.s than half uf tht-lr normal strength in the severe fighting fight-ing on the British front before the signing sign-ing of the .'li iii ist ire. Army olfu'L-rs recalled today that only tho infantry and iiiachine-gun units of ! these divisions went into art ion withMhe ! Brit .sh forofs, the art illery being used elsewhere. It also was regarded as more than probahie that the intantry and ma-chine-gun units wore reduced in number . so as to ma ke t he d i vision ronform in size to the British divisions with which ! they wort operating. i The Fritiah divisional unit numbers about l,ri'iO men. The Twenty-seventh division is the N".-w York national gnnrd division, - cmunaiid.-d by -Major-General John K. ovKyan. t ho only national guard nfi'irer to have served throuirh the war with that high rank. The Thirtieth division di-vision was composed "f the Tennessee. Nor tli 'arolina and SnuUi . 'ami ma national na-tional guard and w.:s known as the "Wildcat" division. Saw Heavy Action. Both thrse organizations saw 'reavy action with the British and Wei"' hlghlv eommeiid-.-d by Kritish officers for their desperate fight mg when Marshal Haig's armies were smashing the Hindonburg lire In northern I-'ranc' early in tiie fan and later engagements. Their losses undoubtedly un-doubtedly have been heavy, but it is not reg-irdei.! as probable that baif their orn; inai si re ngt h figured m the casual : v lists. So far as knout: here no r!;t t e f..r the ret urn of t ;-- or a ny oiner dive-.ns fCcVinucd on Pa-re Four.) BRITISH TO BUS 40,01 SQIDIEBS (Continued From Page One.) from I'Yance has been fixed. Secretary Liak'T said today none of the divisional organ' 7.al ions would arrive home before Christmas, as the transport facilities will be used in moving casuals and aick and wounded. When th divisions do return from I'Yance they will bear little resemblance in enlisted personnel to the same divisions divi-sions when tlu-y started overseas. Application Ap-plication of the one-army theory to ail the forces and the svst-nns of replacement replace-ment empoed to fill g;ip.s in front-line organizations will be found to have obliterated ob-literated to a large degree the lin-s which before their departure divided the divisions into national- guard, national army cr regular organizations. Sharply Illustrated. This fact was sharply Illustrated today to-day by news from France that the Seventy-sixth division had reached its embarkation em-barkation port on the other side with a full strength of sixty-one officers and lUi'O men. It went over filled substantially substan-tially to full strengLh of 27.UUU men. The report today from Franca shows that not only have L'-i.HOO of the 27.non rnen of the original Seventy-sixth been scattered In the fighting army, but that probably a large number of additional men passed through its ranks In the smne way. The division itself w;s ne1'- ' tton or near the front, but it Is evident that the bulk of its original personnel did see action In other" U i.-iOjis. U may be that the extraordinary depletion de-pletion in the ranks of the Seventy-sixth , division represents casualties suffered by the Twenty-sixth division, the New ftn- gland national guard force that was first of the troops, oilier than those of the regular army, to reach France. This division saw heavy fighting in many seiy tors and won an enviable reputation. Its casualties are certain to have been heavy and ft Is quite likely that it was kept at fighting strength by replacement drafts from the Seventy-sixth division, which was composed largely of men from the same part, of the country. If this is true, the Twenty-sixth, when that does come home, will appear more like the old Seventy-sixth than anything else, for tho bulk of its personnel will have been drawn from that source. j Even if the men of the Seventy-sixth have not gone into the Twenty-sixth, but have been scattered among other divisions, di-visions, it is obvious that the replacement system litis served to break up almost entirely the localized character of tiie original divisions. All of the active units are now filled with men from the selective service, national guard and regular reg-ular army Indiscriminately, and had the war continued the whole army would have been welded together in this fashion until there was no possibility of distinguishing dis-tinguishing between the units except by number. Organization of Corps. The organization of American arxny corps in France as it existed November 7. four days before the signing of the armistice, was made- public tonight by Die war department. Six corps then had been organized, but only the first was at the maximum strength of six divisions. divi-sions. In all, twenty divisions made up the corps. In the first corps were the Sixth division, di-vision, made up of the 61st, 52nd and 54th infantry regiments and the 3rd, 7Sth and 11th artillery regiments; the Thirty-sixth Thirty-sixth division, 141st. 142nd, 143rd and 144th infantry regiments and the 131st, 13'2nd and 133rd artillery regiments; the Forty-second division, 165th, IGGth, 167th and IGSth infantry regiments and the 149th, 150th and 151st artillery regiments; the Seventy-seventh division. 305 th, 306th. 307ih and iiQSth infantry regiments regi-ments and the 304th, 305th and 306th ar-til'erv ar-til'erv regiments; the Seventv-eigth division, di-vision, 309th, 310th, 311th and 312th in- fan try regiments and the 3U7th, 308th and 30il th artillery regiments, and the j Eightieth division, 317th, 318th, 319th and 320th infantry regiments and the 3I3th, 314th and 315th. artillery regiments. regi-ments. In tho second corps were the Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth divisions, brigaded brigad-ed with the British Fourth army. In the Twenty-seventh division were the 105th, lOtith, 107th and 108th infantry regiments and the 104th, 105th and 106th artillery regiments, and in the Thirtieth division were the 117th. 118th, 119th and 120th infantry regiments attd the 113th, 114th and 115th artillery regiments. The third corps had five divisions, as follows: 3rd, 4th, 7th, 30th and 38th infantry in-fantry regiments and 10th, 76th and 18th artillery regiments; 5lh, 6oth, 61st, tith and 11th infantry regiments and l'Jth, 20th and 21st artillery reg.ments; 32nd, 125th, 126th. 127th and U'sth infantry regiments and 119th, 120th and 121st artillery ar-tillery regiments; 35 th, 137 th, 138th, 13l)th and 140th infantry regiments and 12th, lOUth and l3oth artillery regiments; 19th, 357th, 353th, 359th and 360111 infantry infan-try regiments and 343rd, 344th and 345th artillery regiments. k In the fourth corps were two divisions, the Seventh and Twenty-eighth. The Seventh division was composed of the 55th, 56th, 34th and 64th infantry regiments regi-ments and the 7lKh, 80th and 8th artillery artil-lery regiments. In the fifth corps were four divisions, the First, Second (Marine), Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth and Eighty-ninth. The First division divi-sion was made up of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th infantry regiments and the 5th, i 6th and 7th artillery regiments; the Sec-I Sec-I ond of the 9th and 23rd infantry regiments regi-ments and the 15th, 17th and 12th artillery artil-lery regiments: the Twenty-ninth of the 113th, 114th, 115th and 116th infantry regiments and the 110th. 111th and 112th artilltry regiments: and the Eightv-ninth of the 353rd, 354th, 355th and 35(ith infantry in-fantry regiments and the S40th, 341st and 342nd artillery regiments. In the sixth corps was the Ninety-second division, made up of the 365th, 36ith, 367th and 3'J8th infantry regiments and the 3-t0th, 350th and 351st artillery regiments. |