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Show America to -Bring Home Heroes Dead General March Reveals Plan in" Talk to . Senate By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dee. 3. tirneral March, discussing demobilization today before the senate military com1"''0", wd-Oeneral wd-Oeneral ."rrshing wan aeh'cting up its fur the eccuutittonaF force of a I hi nt !.:: 0,000 men and that all the other American soldiers In France would tve brought home ss rapidly as shipping could he provided, j OVER 750,000 FIGHT. Senator Johnson aslgrd how msny Americans had been In actual fight- j ins; up to the signing of the arm!- ' etice. Serretsry Baker estimated j 750,000, and General March added that It was above that number, but "somewhat less than l.OOO.Ooa." General March alio said unless relatives rela-tives of Americans who hsve lost their lives request otherwise, all bodies of the American dead will be brought home, without legislation by congress. How soon the transportation transporta-tion of bodies will begin General March said he could not state. TWO TRANSPORTS- COMING. Two steamers, the Empress, of j Britain nnd the Adriatic, sailed from I 1,1 ver pool yesterday for New York i with returning American troops, the I war department announced. The Km-j Km-j press of Britain carries 7 officers. 10 nurse and lists men. The Adrl-I Adrl-I atic curries HO officers and "?uft mm. 1 UNITS ON WAY. I Aboard the Km press of Britain are I the Three Hundred Seventh. Three Hundred Sixty-first, One Hundred I Fortieth. Two Hundred Fifty-sixth and Klft-ht Hundred Thirty-fourth j aero squadron. the One Hundred First.) (me Hundred Third. Seventeenth and : Fourteenth air service construction i companies i and a numlier of caual-1 caual-1 tie and sick nnd wounded There 1 are eleven officers and 241 men among the casuals, not requiring spe-ci;il spe-ci;il attention, snd lf4 enlisled wbo iire bedridden from wounds or Illness. Th Adriatic cnrree the Fight ( Hundred Twenty-eighth. Three Hun-; dred Thirty -eighth. Three Hundred Thirtv-six'h. Four Hundred Seventy-second. Seventy-second. Three Hundred Seventv-sev-enth and the Six Hundred Thirty-seventh Thirty-seventh aero souadrons; the Fourth. Sixth. Beventh. height h and Ninth air service companies. There are thirty officers and one enlisted man among the casuals on the Adriatic. WOUNDED COME FIRST. INloN. I H-c. S. All American li wounded in Kntrtand. with-the excep- : tion of airout 5o0 of the most serious i cRHes. will e back in the I'ntted States by Christmas, according to present pli-ns. Kfforts now are telng made to move the Americana quickly. |