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Show FORT DOUGLAS IS , MILITARY HOSPITAL SALT LAKE, Nov. 23. It Is the intention in-tention of the war department to remove re-move all line troops from Fort Douglas Doug-las and dedicate the post in Its entirety entire-ty to army general hospital use as soon as the more pressing details of bringing bring-ing troops home and demobilizing of tho arms aro attended to. Such is the further official information informa-tion received from Washington, D. C, yestefday from the war department officials. of-ficials. A dispatch from the Tribune's Washington correspondent on this subject sub-ject says: "It Is the purpose of the war department depart-ment to convert Fort Douglas in its entirety en-tirety into an array Jiospital for the treatment and care of returned veterans veter-ans of the war in Europe "The organizations of engineers now there aro to be removed lo make room for hospital expansion, but in the ! press of more important matters tho adjutant general's office has not yet ! had time to order this readjustment." ' The entiro organization of the war' department Is now devoting its lime and attention to the matter of return- J ing troops from France and in working J out details of the demobilization oft the great army. These matters have i to bo attended to first and other de-1 tails will be taken up later; It is stated. Keep Things On Move. It is indicated that as the hospital at Fort Douglas has been gotten under way, tho war department officials aro looking to the officials of this organization organ-ization to keep things on the movo as best they can during the demobilization demobiliza-tion period, and after this has been taken cave of then tho department will be in a position to give attention to details of expansion of tho local hospital hos-pital and other matters that are of importance im-portance in the local situation but aro considered unimportant at present In comparison with tho demands for prompt return of troops from abroad and an early demobilization of the army. The exodus of lino troops from the post will commence today. Orders have been received for all the casual engineers engi-neers left behind by the Seventieth railway engineers to proceed tonight to other camps. About ninety-four men and seven officers will leave today for Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for further duty, and about 120 limited service men, formerly of the Seventieth, hav been ordered to proceed to Can-j Funston, Kan., and to take the general military prisoners now in the pnjt guardhouse at Fort Douglas with them to tho Kansas camp. oo |