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Show MAY NOT RETURN FOB TJO YEARS NKW YOU K. Nov. 1. Demobilization of the American forces in France will require re-quire a period of two years after peace is declared, according to a statement made here tonight by General T. Coleniafl Du Pont, just from a two months' visit-to visit-to the western front. Declaring his views were reflections of official opinion among allied forces, he flaked Americans to accustom 1 hcmsc-lves to long demobilization as they bad lo long war. "One of our generals asked me," he said, "to tell the people at home that our boys have a year's wore ahead of them in removing the barbed wire the Huns have Strung across Fra nee." Asserting that the civil war bad ''turned thousands of men back Into civil D life weakened and purposeless," General DU Font said the seven war work agencies agen-cies should be supported generally in their approaching campaign, lie declared that "states ma nJlke pla ns are being laid" for the prying period following peace. "Every hut in France, ho said, "will become a university classroom on the day peace Is signed. The hoys will be gleu every educational advantage under1 lead -Ing educators and business men from the United States." |