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Show BRITAININNOUNCES 1STER-0UT-J "PLANJ Long Service Men With! Families First to J Go Home. By Harold E. Bechlol pels. AssMlstlen, LONlON, Kngland, Nov. 12 It Is now possibl. to glvs. In goners! terms, a few features of ths British demobilisation plans, on authority of Dr. Addison, ths minister of reconstruction. Ixng service men snd men with families fami-lies will be mustered out first whsrever possible. liemohlllsatlon will not he undertaken by military units, but largely by horns and Indiislrisl requirements. The government expects to aid discharged dis-charged men In finding work on a large scale. Keveral branches of th. government are cooperating In working out a fi-ll de- muBnUHimn iiitn. ; A nival official who is Interested In the deoHihltliation plans eiprensed this new Idea for getting ihe men home: "I hope to e the allies u. the port of Hamburg as a center for aendlng Brlt!h and Brlllah colonials home "V. could snd oughl lo use German ships, and let Germany supply the coal. "Thla would make the French ports freer to handle th. American, and for "fhe!reare'now enrolled In th. British army and navy throughout the world mors than . 1.00,000 men. including those .nil. led before the wsr about Joo.ooo. Th. total strength of all British forces st ths siart of 1911 wa. .bout 7.M,0fi men. Thus, during the present year lo date. Oreat Britain has ralsid mors than a million men These figure, ar. divided di-vided ss follows: .Isnuary. ll l"nlt-d Klnrdom. ..-IWMI ..-IWMI men. divided: Kngland. 4.M..0O: Hoollsnd, tSO.OOO; Wales, 2S0.000; Ireland, I ''Autumn. 1l I'nlted Kingdom, ,250,. 00. (no division given. January. lSlS-Poniillloni nd colonies, tw.Mn men. Autumn, IMS Dominion and colonies, 1, (HMi.oi men. January, I'll India and dependencies, l.fKNI.IMIO. 1 Autumn. 11 India and dependencies, 1, 200,000. |