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Show Major Portion of U. S. ll Fighters to Remain in 7 France for Some Time DEillZAIIOii PLANS ARE OUTLINED 4 J America to Play Big Part in Disarming and Guarding Guard-ing Foe. By A.aoclaLd Pr.ae. , ' YASUINiTON' Nov- 1L- W Sipuing of the armistice ttn.iiii.j.-, vi-hl.-h ln-iiifra ill. world war to an end, do1 not moan that th great American military machine will cm to operate at one. America must play an im-i pfra" pair! Ill ilirariniin mil gif-d1"! I nit the enemy and until this work la completed, even the troop movement to France wilt continue, although on a j (really reduced scale. Hiring the Interval between the cessation ces-sation of hostilities and the conclusion of the peace conference It la assumed A that the major portion of General Per- shlng'a expeditionary forcea in France n mufit be retained there. It la poaalbte I alio that for reasons of International I politics some American garrison may 1 be kept In deputed territory even after actual peace negotiations have! 1 been closed. 1 German and Austrian naal reasela, remains to be done. REMOVAL OF MINES. v Removal of the thousands of mines laid by the allied, American and tier-man tier-man navies will form no small part ft this work and undoubtedly the fleet of mine sweeping; and laying craft ami overseas by the United States will assist In this gigantic task. The greatest mine field la that put down in the North sea mm a barrage agalnat the German aubmarinea. The minea were manufactured In this country and were laid largely by American ah I pa. With the return of all German submarines sub-marines to their bases, allied and American shipping once more may sail the seven seas without fear of molestation moles-tation and In disregard of the regulations regula-tions made necessary by Germany's unrestricted warfare. There will be no more running at night without lights, with Ita attendant dangers of collisions and zigzagging and deflation defla-tion from established shipping routea. SHIPPING FREED. Much of the shipping used for war purposes will be freed for peacetime i commerce and there will follow a gradual grad-ual relaxation of the restrictions as to fnttf) and other necessities Imposed upon the iiCQiile of 11.- lUi tries. These changes will not come immediately, however, for it la the purpose of the American and entente government to cooperate with Germany, Ger-many, Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey, aa well as with BHgiuilU-Herbi and -HttmanlavTn furnishing as fur aa possible pos-sible the food and other supplies necessary nec-essary for the civilian populations of thne countries. These considerations of world peare. i Important s they are, must be adjusted ad-justed as they develop. They could I not be planned in advance, as has been the breaking up the military forces of the I'nlted Plate. Great Britain and France and the orderly return re-turn of the millions of these soldiers to their civilian status. 2"p"hasesconsidered. In this country the problem lifts been turn ttn a routine schedule to meet the - next detarenment of soldiers for that territory. CONTROL OF SHIPMENTS. By carefully controlling the returning return-ing shipments, military authorities believe be-lieve that they can to a great degree rerulate the flood of discharged sol -diera so that no sinsle section of the country would.be swamped. The work of returning the soldiers to their former civilian atatua In the tn-austrial tn-austrial life of the nation haa been turned over to the department of labor and la being handled by a special committee com-mittee headed by Felix Frankfurter. An organization la ready for tne use of the authorities In the same machinery ma-chinery which has carried out the provision pro-vision of the "work or fight" order and It Is understood that this will be used largely in the task of finding positions po-sitions for the men. I'nder this plan, each local draft board will be const i- luted a central labor office for the district dis-trict in which il la situated, and will place the men who were sent by It to the army. In the positions found vacant. i LEGISLATION REQUIRED. While full authority la held by the war department for toe demobilization "Jf th canned fuitea. ih return nf ths I nation's mobilized Industries to a peace , bants. It is th.. unlit, will necessitate Important Im-portant legislation by congress to prevent pre-vent a period of acute disruption In business. Officials here expect that . congress will be called upon Boon To consider a "demobilization bill, which will deal with this and kindred prob lema. GREAT WORK IN FRANCE. Designation of the units of the army to remain In FTance over the period of settlemenT haa not been taken by the war department. It should be realized, officials point out, that even after terms of peace have been signed, a work, of stupendous magnitude will remain. re-main. Millions of tons of material, comprising railroad equipment aa well as arsenal supplies, repair and refitting refit-ting planta and the strictly military ArniitMmanta m n mt Y. 1 w f ant MILLION IN CAMP. Troops which have seen the longest i service In France probably will be returned re-turned home soon to be replaced by new men now In this country who will perform guard or other duty overseas. There are more than 1,000,000 men now In ramps In the United States. The question of discontinuing the mlling of men to the colors under the elective service act with the ending , of hostilities has been under consldera-. consldera-. tion. It is known that General fmwder's advisers hare favored canceling can-celing all outstanding calls as soon aa the armistice Is signed, but this mat-ter mat-ter must be passed on by the general 'staff. The movement of a large num her of men tn camp - ri.i. i i t - -this morning under November calls which embraced about 800,000 men. 1 i HOMECOMING PLANS. Return home of American naval forces battleshlpa, destroyers, submarines, subma-rines, converted yachts, supply ships and other craft also will follow the end of the war. Infinite plana have not been revealed,, but It la assumed here that once disposition la made of the German high seaa fleet and submarines. sub-marines. In accordance with terms of the armistice, the American dread-noughts' dread-noughts' with the British grand fleet, together with most of the destroyers snd other submarine hunting and ..-onvovlng craft, will return. Fven with hostilities ended, how- Sever, much other naval work aside from thwt of tnkf-r nr and r'iflrrftnr - k i I'-irniB io iis i wo enter phases: The striotly military, having to do with the demobilization of the army and Its safe return to America, and the Industrial which deAls only with the infiltration of the aoldiers into the ranka of labor after they have been released from the artillery. A third problem of demobilization will deal with the mobilized industries of the United .States. Th militsry authorities have had unrler consideration for some time the subject of demobilization of the army, but ths plan which will be used has not yet been officially approved. Break Ing up of the American expeditionary forces now numbering two and one-quarter one-quarter millions of n- - fc rrln Hi Piaiit'g II this plan Is adopted. PROGRAM OUTLINED. The program entails the gradual breaking up of the large military units Into segments governed eoieiy by the location of he home of the individual soldier. The United States will he divided Into districts, each of which is to be fed by one or more Atlantic ports from Galveston to Bangor. Commanding officers of-ficers ef division will be instructed to detsch, for Instance, men from the "first demobilization district." which might Include men from Maine and Massachusetts and en train them for j a specified Krench port where adequate ade-quate shipping will be waiting. These vessels will proceed directly to the ports selected for the first district, and df"-mhrrk1nr their pswpepn wIM r. s Invoiced preparatory to their dipossl, l9 either to one of the allied governments, or reshlpment to the United States. An army of considerable aie will be need-n need-n ed for this work for months after the n war enda. 4 It has been suggested that the units il to remain In France for thia work be e obtained by calling for volunteers from the expeditionary forcea. 4 I'nder existing low, authority la glv-A glv-A en for the maintenance of a regular f srmy up to & strength of about 976.000. B Military men believe, however, that a . much larger forc will be required in y Kurope for possibly two years after the signing nf the armistice. -j BRITIOII PLANS. ' The British government hegsn its preparations for demobilisation nearly j a year ago. Ita plans have been so thoroughly worked out mat when a "dress rehearsal, waa held recenOv. a , unit of the Brtfieh army in France wss sent through the machinery tri Its final . operations where each man found him-r him-r self In his native town, clad In civilian n clothes, possessing a government voucher, which could be cashed at any postoffice. sufficient to cover a period of Idleness. Kach British soldier also 1 will be handed a government tnsursnre j policy against nonemployment. r Complete plsns for bresklng up the French forces also have been pre- pared, but it Is considered probable M that th demobilization process in th I case of these armies will be much slower than for the American or even i the British, because of the necessity for guarding Alsace-frralne, and also In view of the gigantic task of reconstruction reconstruc-tion in the invsded districts. |