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Show U. S. DEMOBILIZATION ELIMINATES GENERALS TV A S HI N G TON. March 32. Demobiliza-' tion of t he army from November 1 to March I had resulted in the elimination of seventy-six general officers, a table 'issued by the war department today discloses. dis-closes. Fnrtner demobilization in Immediate Imme-diate prospect will cancel the wartime rank of ;m . additional 203 general officers, of-ficers, leaving only 13 men in the grade nf bricadir general and above out of the 404 who were on duty when the armistice armi-stice was signed; Only sixty-one perma- j nent genera 1 officers aer authorized. j The great majority of those affected by demobilization are regular army men I who held commissions as general officers j for war purposes only. |