Show report on troop returns U S army forces overseas are being repatriated with ever increase ing speed A fleet of troop ships has been augmented by the conversion of liberty cargo ships 97 victory cargo ships 38 hospital ships an and navy assault transports and navy nav combatant c Omba tant vessels recently recent bertey a few yli liberty ships were con converted in two or three days in manila never before have so many troops been moved so far and so fast troops are being brought home from bases the world over at a rate slightly more than three times faster than that at which the was abed at ed from france alone after world war I 1 an army that took 48 49 months to mobilize to a strength of five million men overseas will have been returned ten in months months after the end of the war the greatest number of troops embarked for overseas in a single month under the arg urgency ency of wartime demands was in january of 1915 now troops are returning at a rate well over a mo month th in october soldiers de barked at our ports with landing on the east coast and on the west coast preliminary figures show that an additional 52 were returned by air |