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Show RETURN OF BOYS I MAY BEDEFERRED I Americans Will Remain "Over i There" Until Peace Is Signed. I j ' 1 SALT, LAKE, Nov. 14. How soon i will the boys be hqme? , ?, This is the question that is on I he lips of almost everyone since the, signing of the armistice. The general ( public seems to, expect an immcdlatt ') demobilization of "tho army and the; rushing home of the men who entered j tho service "for the period of the j emergency." j? They who expect "this are doomed! i to dlsappointmen, according to mili-i tary authorities. For, although an ar-1 I mistico has been signed, the war is) not yet over. Tho articles of peace j $ have not been signed, have not oven( a been frajned as yet. How long it will j require to accomplish this is a ques- tion that time alone can answer. And, 3 it. is pointed' out, oven after peace terms have been finally signed, there I will still remain much military work to he done overseas and the soldiers will not come homo until the last duly i has been successfully performed Last War Is Example. As an Indication of the time that H may have to elapse before there is B even a start to demobilize the army S and to return the soldiers overseas to j their homes here, it is pointed out II that is was six months or more follow- ing tho Spanish-American war before the final treaty of peaco was signed H and It was many more months before, H all the soldiers "were returned to this Ejj country from their overseas stations. U It required many months of con- N tinuous session of tho peace confer- H ences following tho Franco-Prussian m war to perfect the peace treaty fol- H lowing that war. In proportion it H should take even longer to work out H the final details in this war, it is said, I though different conditions prvailing n now may upset tho precedent H Warning Sent Out. I But, however this may bo, the I warning Is sent out by tho military I authorities that the people should not indulge in "dangerous optimism" and allow themselves to be carried away ! with the expectition of an immediate g demobilization of tho army and re- 1 turn of the soldiers to civilian life. I Demobilization of a great army is- a 1 much slower and more tedious jog 3 than its mobilization. It is fraught I with greater responsibilities, demands H more cautious procedure to guard 1 against demobiliztian of economic, so- P cial and labor conditions, and must 1 be cirri d out in accordance with a farsightd and for-reaching plan. y Following the Spanish -American H war there were revolutions and upris . H ings that had to be put down by the H military establishment Ample indi- cations of juBt this sort of aftermath H to the great world war, only on a H greatly magnified scale, are already 3) being furnished. j Many Months Yet. I Military men are unanimous in tho i I opinion that the present army which j the United States has overseas will 1 1 ! have to be maintained intact there for j j many months and armed forces will have to be kept on duty there fori I years, possibly. The time which will ? be required for the "mopping-up" !j I process following open hostilities is A variously estimated by officers at from I two to ten years, the tlmo depending. E of course, upon developments in con- M dilions in the countries affctcd. j So the people are warned not. to in- y I dulge in tho false optimism that the H i war is over and the boys. will be home H ttomorrow. They are urged to realize M that the task so well begun must be M carried to completion to the last de- P tall and that the boys over there must P remain "on the job" until this final 1 detail Is properly attended to. r i 1 oo I |