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Show tin wn$ mm m isMKg Ninety-First Division in The-Th1clTiFBaftle GO HOME DAILY General March Hope Mustering Out Will Reach 30,000 Each j 24 Hours irr the Nation It : J MARCH PRAISES - -SALT LAKE MAN Brigadier General Frank T. Hinee, whM work as director af embarka ben vn highly praised tad ay by Ganaral March, chief af ataff, in a statement mada at Washington, ia a aan af Mr. and Mra. Frank L. Hmee, S30 Sauth Ninth East, af thta ety. Ha attended tha achaoJa of Salt Laka and ia wall kniwn hare. Ha roa rapidly in tha army and at tha time whan hundrada af thousands af American traapa war being aant abroad ha waa pramatad ta tha rank of brigadier ganaral in racognition af hia affioiant work, and mada d tractor af ambarkatian. By Assoctateej reee. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Dcmobili.at 14.-Dcmobili.at jon in th I'nited Slates ia now proceeding at the rate of 15,000 men released from the army every day. General Gen-eral March announced today. It atlll Is anticipated that a rata of S0.009 a day will ba reached when full momentum momen-tum la attained. Tha war department has now deelff-nated deelff-nated a total of 824.000 man In tha I'nited Platen for discharge, an increase in-crease of nearly 200,000 during; tha laat --' week. Oneral March mada it clear, however, that designation of troop, floe not mean Immediate discharge, but aeverance from the eervtce aa their turn is reached In demobilisation. OFFICERS DEMOBILIZED. ?-: Among the new branch eg of ttie irmy to l included in demoblliiatimi orders are 12. wo Porto fiican troope ordered discharged. Of tha total man designated Sl'.OOO are In depot and de- ' elopment battalions and aimilar Mm -j ited units. Jn addition 18,000 men op j industrial furlough have been ordered I released. I Immobilisation of officers la proceeding pro-ceeding mitre rapidly than ia the cage with the men (ieneral March aald a total of U.20J officern has been bon-orablv bon-orablv discharged since the armistice waa signed. : 30,000 HAVE SAILED. Summarising the flow of returning troops from France, i ieneral Marcn said a total of o-3 officers and 1J,-22 1J,-22 men bad liecn deif;naied for return re-turn by ;en-ra Pershing up to December De-cember K', of that number 1J7J off-cera off-cera and J0.70J men have actually sailed from France. SANTA CLAUS SAILS. J f ieneral March tok occasion to compliment com-pliment Hrtadier tieneral Franic T. H ines, d inn-tor of embarkation, and K the ernbaikat mi s.r ice generally In I stat i inc. that all Christmas package j for toe troo'ii in frYance hd been I cleared from New York without delay I or couf'ifiirri With the sailing of tha Malh-inia, and Pocahontaa last week t ) the army has sent six Christmas ahtpa 'carrying o..Mrt sacks of 2. 24. 00 ('briMmas packages. General March sbi if this number would assure ererT officer and man. of the expeditionary forces of holiday greetings frora.home. ( Ueneral March aald the war department depart-ment was not at present prepared to make public i thing aa tn plana which rrtav be recommended for unl-versaj unl-versaj military trainta- Hia remark: as prompted by a published report tbst the general staff would aak f--f t Cowl 1 1 ad m paf o jTj 15,000 MEN Vntinued from p;ie 1 i nine months training of men m their nineteenth year. CAMP LEWIS MEN. Summarizing the recm d of t he Ninet - first division. Pacific coa.-t, ;eneral March said It joined the P.nt-ih P.nt-ih forces in Planih-rs earlv in ( .-tot.er !nm mti nvHunrr l iidviiMl'i'd v Him ' meters on the Scheldt line against intense in-tense rifle and machine kum fire, on the 3rd and 4th of Novemher it did ; p.itnd duty on the Schel.lt front and j on the i'dh was withdrawn to rt ' hi)let!. |