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Show "RAINBOW BOYS" MAKE READY FOR THEIR TRIP HOME By PARKE BROWN. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) COBIJ2NZ, April 1. Detailed plans were made known here today for sending send-ing the Rainbow division home. They show that general headquarters has arranged ar-ranged for the entrainmerit, movement and embarkation of the units now in the American army of occupation with a maximum speed and minimum disepmfort. According to the final schedule, the entrapment en-trapment of the Forty-second will begin on Saturday, April 5, and will be completed com-pleted on the following Friday, April 11. The running time to Brest is fixed at sixty hours, much faster than anybody here thought possible. The Thirty-second will be the next division divi-sion to leave this area. It Is scheduled to begin Its movement on April 26. The whole Rainbow outfit probably will be on American soil before May 1. Twenty-three trains of thirty cars each, leaving at the rate of four trains a day, will be sufficient to carry all tho units of the Rainbow division, minus the artillery pieces, transport and similar equipment. The American box cars have been thoroughly cleaned and provided with toilet facilities- They will have a capacity capac-ity of sixty men, but the men will ride forty-five to a car. Thus there will be ample room for their packs arid straw-fi'led straw-fi'led bed sacks. The rolloing kitchens are in a ratio of one to every 250 men carried, and t, half-nour half-nour stop will be made for meals The men will tumble out of the cars nd file by the cars holding the kitchens, getting the regular garrison rations. They will eat, wash their kits in big cana of hoi water and hop back on the train The officers will eat with the men, although they will ride in passenger coaches. Strict discipline wdll be enforced by the train and car commanders, the former being commissioned officers and the latter noneoms. !No wines or liquor of any kind will be permitted on the trains |