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Show NEW HUN ARMY TO HAVE 241,500 MEN Will Be Divided Iuto Sixteen Large Brigades and Eleven Small Ones, It Is Announced. WITH THE AMERICAN" ARMY OF OCCUPATION. - May 3. (Ky the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The strength of the new German army, or reiehswehr, has provisionally provi-sionally been fixed at 24 1. nOO men, according ac-cording to information reaching American officers in charge of keeping tab on the demobilization and readjustment of enemy forces. There are to be sixteen large and eleven small brigades, tho large brigades to have 1 0.462 men each and the small brigades BS39 men each. Corps troops arc to number num-ber 545S and general headquarters troops about lO.OuO men, according to il present pres-ent plans. Now that the 1S99 class of the old German Ger-man army is rapidly being discharged from all units, excepting a few in thc guard corps and on tho eastern front, there soon will remain in the garrisons throughout Germany only two classes of troops thc new and independent volunteer volun-teer units and the volunteer remnants of the oldy army units. Some of the volunteer remnants have been planning to combine with the new Independent volunteer units for the reiehswehr, reiehs-wehr, but in many other instances It is apparent they are simply drifting, awaiting await-ing some decision by thc war ministry as to their future. Reports that the war ministry is planning lo maintain small garrisons in every town indicate the possibility pos-sibility in the old depar Linen ts are to remain re-main in tho old departments, rather than be transferred into tho new volunteer units. |