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Show M EXTRA U. S. j 0 R PS JO BGCUPV TERRITORY Eight of Thirteen Divisions Di-visions Comprising the Third Army Expect to Be Home by Summer. General Pershing As-; As-; signs 5325 Officers and 125,515 Men for Early Return Home. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Eight of the thirteen divisions comprising the American Ameri-can Third army now approaching the llhine either are national guard or national na-tional .-army troops, and there is every reason to believe that they will be on American soil again by midsummer. General March, chief of staff, announced today that he anticipated no difficulty in getting these units home within four months after peace has been established formally by proclamation. President Wilson, Wil-son, in his recent address to congress, said these sessions of the conference prob-. prob-. abiy would be concluded bv spring, and, based on this estimate of the time. General Gen-eral March's statement was accepted to mean that these forces would return during the summer. WITHIN TWENTY MILES OF RHINE. Two national guard divisions, the Tliir- ty-second and Forty-second, and two of the national army, the Eighty-ninth and ! Ninetieth, now are In the front line of ' Major General Dickman's army of occu- j pation, which was within twenty miles of the Rhine last night, according to General Gen-eral Pershing's report. The Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth and Thirty-third national guard and the Seventy-ninth national army divisions di-visions are in the second line, constituting constitut-ing the reserve, which is occupying IjUx-emburg IjUx-emburg and various rail centers in Francq, including Montmedy, Longuyon. Etaln and St. Mihiel. The First, Third, Fourth and Fifth regulars comprise the remainder of the advancing army, while the Second and Seventh divisions are with the reserve. re-serve. Five additional divisions have thus been assigned. The estimate as to the possibility that njl except regular divisions will have been ivi indrawn from Franco by midsummer Ik based on General March's reply to a question as to steps necessary to obtain an extension of the enlistment period for men in the army of occupation. "The law about the men who were raised in the national army Is that they must be discharged four months after the 'declaration of peace," -he said. That, I think, also was extended to include men who made voluntary enlistments in the regular arm. I won't have, any difficulty in. bringing back from France the so-called so-called national army divisions in four months after the declaration of peace. It is entirely possible that we will have to ask congress for some modification of the law to provide a longer period for the units which will remain in Europe." A total of 5325 officers and 125,515 men, General March said, have been specifically assigned for early return by General Pershing. Per-shing. Included in the additional units reported today are 1426 officers and 29,3S1 men, the largest organizations mentioned being the field artillery brigades of the EightrT (regular) and Ninety-second (national (na-tional army negro) divisions and the 345th and 346th infantry regiments from the Eighty-seventh (national army) division. divi-sion. The -remainder of the list consists largely of motor repair units and auxiliary aux-iliary divisional troops. LARGEST OF UNITS ORDERED BACK HOME. i The 346th Infantry is numerically the I largest unit yet ordered home, showing : seventy-seven officers and 31S2 men, while the 345th, with fourteen officers and 734 i men, has apparently been stripped by replacement re-placement drafts. The full strength of an Infantry regiment is approximately 3500 men. Discussing demobilisation of the forces at home, General March said college men other than those in officers' schools which were being abandoned would receive no preference as to the time of their discharge. dis-charge. The order of demobilization providing pro-viding that combat divisions be disbanded, last, he said, has not been altered. "The system is working at a very much greater speed," General March xsa!d, referring re-ferring to demobilization, "and I have initiated a system by which I get a dailv record as to officers and a weeklj' record as to enlisted men. The actual number of officers discharged at the time of the last announcement was 113; the number discharged last week, up to yesterdav. was 7658. The number of men discharged i in the United States last week was over 200,000." Announcement was made of the salting salt-ing from France of the transports .Susquehanna, .Sus-quehanna, Santa Anna and DeKalb, with -sielr, wounded and casuals. The Santa Anna and DeKalb may be expected in New York about December 17. The DeKalb De-Kalb has on board eleven naval officers and 574 naval enlisted men. The Susquehanna Sus-quehanna is due in New York, December Decem-ber 10. The Susquehanna Is bringing casual j company No. 101, consisting of two officers of-ficers and 130 men and casuals con- sitting of two officers and 755 men in addition. The Santa Anna has on board t f forty-elfiht officers twonty-one enlisted men and seventy-nine civilians. The tot:il of returning- troops already actually embarked for home was announced an-nounced as sr4 officers, 17.363 men, ISO civilians, two nurses and two prisoners. Since the stay of the army of occupation occupa-tion abrorul is indefinite, General March said it would be necessary to ask coij-Kress coij-Kress for new enlistment legislation. Under Un-der tliOspresent law no provision is made for such a force as will be needed after the four months from the sinning of peace when the war army must be discharged. To set at rest numerous rumors repard-int; repard-int; enormous casualties In the Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh (New Yorkl division, General March announced that after a careful examination ex-amination of casualty lists it had been found that the total casualties reported from all causes in this division was forty-four forty-four officers and 1109 men. Additional units assigned to early return re-turn home include., 312 supply trains, C and D companies; ambulance company 34G; Forty-ninth regiment, coast artillery corps, headquarters company and C, D, E and F batteries; advance school detachment de-tachment from USth ana JL'Slh divisions E, F, G and H companies, 15th infantry. infan-try. Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh repriments, coast artillery, headquarters head-quarters Thirty-first artillery brigade, coast artillery corps. 34tith infantry; .loom iiKicniiie-t; mi iiiiuani.'ii, uti vance schooi detachments Tenth and Eighth divisions di-visions and Fleventh field artillery brigade; bri-gade; casual company One, eh finical war-faro war-faro service, 301st field art Mlery ; head-quiirters head-quiirters and supply company. Eighth antiaircraft sector, with First, Second. Third and Fourth antlaircmft batteries and 7ighth antiaircraft mobile ordnance repair units. The Third" and Eighth trench mortar batteries; headquarters Ninth antiaircraft sector, with the Tenth and the First, Second and Third provisional provi-sional antiaircraft batteries; Fifth corps artillery park; Sixty-fifth regiment coast artillt-j-y, 4 (list pontoon park and the-4fifiih, the-4fifiih, 467th and 4Ilh pontoon framN. Six nrtiliery regiments, the 34;)th, 3r,0th, 3Tjlst, Eighty- firt. Eighty-third and Second; engineer casual company No. 1. headquarters headquar-ters and First battalion, SOlst pionocr in-fantr'; in-fantr'; Fortieth engineers; Second advance ad-vance school, Tenth field a ritii'-i y brigade; bri-gade; Third heavy mobile ordnance repair re-pair unit, 3UHh engineers arid train; headquarters 3 f.Tth and Eighth field 'artillery 'ar-tillery brigade; headquarters troop Ninety-second division; 3 ''.0-th maclitne-gun battalion. 31 7th trench mortar bat tery ; military police trnining headquarters and supply, sanitary' and ammunition trains; 3f)th field signal battalion; 10 company and mobile ordnance repair shop, ;U7th engineers; - E company, 3llth engineers; Second, Fifth, Sixth and Sfvemh heavy mobile oidnance rejjair shopy. Fourth and Fifth antiaircraft machine-gun battalion; F. 1, K. L, E, (J, H companies and medical medi-cal detachment. Second engineers. |