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Show WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 general Pershing has designated for early convoy con-voy to tho- United Statos a lotalof 3,451 officers nd 79.G63 men, General Gen-eral March announced today. , Tho units comprising these mon will be mado public later. In the list uppear as entire divisions tho 39th, the 76th and the 87th. The other troops comprise artillery units and army corps troops. Genoral March gave out amended casualty reports from General Pershing, Persh-ing, giving tho official total to November Novem-ber 2G as 262,723, exclusive of prisoners. pris-oners. The figures on prisoners were unintelligible in the cablegram, General Gen-eral March said tho total under this head probably would be practically tho same as announced Saturday. General Pershing reported the following fol-lowing official casualties to November 26: Killed in action 2S.363. Died of wounds 12,101. Died of disease 16,03-1. Died of other causes I.9S0. Missing in action 14,290. Prisoners (unintelligible.) Wounded, 1S9,956. divided as follows: fol-lows: Severely wounded 54,751; undetermined undeter-mined 43,168; slightly 92,036. The war departmont expects to bring back home In tho moritb of December i between 150,000 and 175",000 men, General Gen-eral March said. To accomplish this, It will UBe in addition 'to army transports trans-ports and converted cargo boats, enough old battleships and cruisers to I furnish an additional carrying capacity for 25,000 men. Shipping experts ex-1 ports expect to ' transport 300.000 monthly when - the demobilization is under full speed. i Tho total number of troops already i designated for early discharge in the United States was given as 049,000.' These include depot and development battalions 2G.000; divisional troops 10,000; railway troops 2S.000; United States guards 26.000; tank corps 7,000; chemical warfare troops 7,000; central officers training schools 20.000; stu-dont stu-dont army training corps 160,000. To date 46,478 men have been mustered mus-tered out of tho camps in this country coun-try The schedule under which the department is working calls for tho release of an average of 1,000 men per camp per day, and General March said that every effort Avould be made to maintain the average. Revised -army estimates for the coming year resulted in cutting the $19,000,000,000 of army appropriations to lass than three billions, General March '.nnouncod. Genoral Pershing has been directed by President Wilson to confer the Distinguished Service medal on General Gen-eral Bliss, Lieutenant-Gonerals Liggett Lig-gett and Bullard, and Major-Generals Dlckman, McAndrows and Harboard. General March corrected an erroneous erron-eous Impression that the 27th and 30th divisions, reported as withdrawn from the British lines, had been designated for early return to the United States. Thcso two divisions, he explained, have been returned to Pershing's i command and have not yet been assigned as-signed for transportation home. Plans for bringing soldiers home, it was announced, include the use of hospital hos-pital ships for severely wounded and specially fitted transports for the! slightly, wounded and convalescents, i On tho arrival the mon will be met by j hospital trains and the Pullman company com-pany has been directed to convert a ! number 'of sleepers into hospital ears to carry them to the army reconstruction reconstruc-tion hospitals, base hospitals and other places already provided. rr |