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Show i MEN COMING ST ' : BEFORE CHRISTMAS i ! DEMOBILIZATION PLANS WILL PERMIT RAPID RETURN OF BOYS IN FRANCE. Eight Divisions of National Guard and. National Army Troops, Eight Regiments Regi-ments of Coast Artillery and Two Brigades Field Artillery Sail Soon. Washington. 1 eiuobilization of the American expedii ioiiary forces, already in progress with the movement homeward home-ward of sick and wounded, will he hastened by the return at an early date of eight divisions of national guard and national army troops, eight regiments of coast artillery and two brigades of field artillery. This announcement an-nouncement was made Saturday by General March, chief of staff, on receipt re-ceipt of dispatches from General Pershing. Per-shing. The divisions which General March said have been designated by General Pershing to return as soon as the sick and wounded have been moved to the United States are : National guards : Thirty-first (Georgia, (Geor-gia, Alabama and Florida) ; Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth (Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota); Thirty-eighth (Indiana, (Indi-ana, Kentucky and West Yirginia) ; and Thirty-ninth (Arkansas, Mississippi Missis-sippi and Louisiana). National army: Seventy-sixth, (New England) ; Eighth-fourth (Kentucky, Indiana and southern Illinois) ; Eighty, sixth (northern Illinois, including Chicago), Chi-cago), and Eighty-seventh (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and southern Alabama). The coast artillery regiments to be returned as soon as possible were announced an-nounced as the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fif-tieth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth. The two field artillery brigades to be brought home are the Sitxy-fifth and the One Hundred and Sixty-third. . Eighty-two aero squadrons, seventeen construction companies and several special units from England will be brought home as soon as transportation transporta-tion facilities are available, General March said. |