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Show uxaiiiis di RAPIDLY Sixty-eight Thousand Yanks Returned Home Says War Department By a.ssctst3 Pies. " WASHINGTON', , Dee, 27. Sixty-eight thousand Aiupp-iran Aiupp-iran aoMiera had been returned from oversea Jeeember 21 and slightly more than 500,000 in thin 'Country had been mustered out of service, members of the house mill-, tury commtitee were told today at their weekly conference it the war department. Officers are be Ins; discharged at a rapid rate. Chairman lent said, explaining ex-plaining that 32,000 had been released since the armistice was signed. The largest number of discharged officers was in the chemical warfare service and the fewest number In the medical section. Troop movement from abroad on ships now controlled by t he United States are limited to 16000 men a week, but the department hopes to Increase In-crease this to 20,000 or 30,000. |