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Show ABANDON PLANS FOR PARADES OF FIGHTING DIVISIONS WASHINGTON, April 1. Secretary Baker announced today that he had been forced to abandon hopes he has entertained enter-tained that a victory parade of three distinctive dis-tinctive fighting divisions might be arranged ar-ranged to take place in Washington. The divisions he had hor.ed to assemble for tho purpose, he said, were the First, representative rep-resentative of the old regular army and the first to land in France; the Second, which includes the marine brigade, and the Forty-second or Rainbow, the national na-tional guard unit built up from Uie forces of states. The " secretary said experience had shown that it would be impossible to get the three divisions home at anything like the same time and he had been forced to limit the review to the Forty-second division di-vision alone. Plans for divisional parade of that organization, it is understood, are now being worked out. Whether even this will be practicable has not yet been definitely decided. Many obstacles confront the department in arranging for divisional parades. Even in the case of the Twenty-seventh, the New York national guard division, which received an enthusiastic welcome a week ago in New York Cit the difficulties were great although New York, as the main port for debarkation, has the greatest great-est facilities for such homecoming reviews. re-views. A computation of the cost to the government gov-ernment of the New York parade, including includ-ing the pay and subsistence of the men alcne for the period they were held in the service in order to participate, shows an expenditure of nearly $?27,000. |