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Show jRECORD OF THE TROOPS IN FRANCE Stars and Stripes, published in (France, gives this account of troop (movements- j j The first division of combat troops j !to return to the United States will be; the 76th, the National Army division from New Jersey, Maryland and the i ! District of Columbia. The 27th. the. New York National Guard division, and the 30th, the National Guard dl-1 vision from Tennessee and North and South Carolina, it Is presumed, will follow. Tho 76th Is now at St. Na-zalro Na-zalro awaiting embarkation orders. The 76th, since its arrival In France, has been a replacement division ;nd, in tho words of one of its members, "not much of the old gang is left." Tho great majority of its original members wont to other divisions and have seen service on the line. At last accounts the Btrength of the 76th was 61 officers and 1,072 mon. The other replacb-mont replacb-mont divisions will receive orders for home within the next few weeks in all probability. Glorious Fighting Record The 27th and 30th divisions, fighting divisions, are going home without ever having seen the American front and without the distinction of having taken tak-en parL-in America's great battle, the fight in the Argonne. But they arc going back with a glorious individual record of their own. It was these divisions which, during the hard fighting of July, August and September carried the Stars and stripes beside the British banner on the British front, bringing forth tho hearty commendation of the British high command and the admiration of the men, including the Australians, with whom they fought. It was they who, after fighting their way up to their jumping off place in the face of almost frantic resistance by the Germans, broke the Hindenburg line near Bellicourt, and afterwards, j undaunted and unexhausted by this heavy fighting, carried the battle (many miles further toward Germany. One of the biggest problems in sending American troops home is the (inadequacy of rail transport to the seaboard. sea-board. With winter coming, the ! French government needs the utmost capacity of its railroads to distribute food and other supplies through the country. i n |