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Show AR MY1 I . ' A thirty Thousand Demobilized Demob-ilized Daily Since War Ended, Says March. PRISONERS RELEASED Pershing Reports 3,210 Americans Returned From Germany. i WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. With a! total of 18S.5G2 men discharged from j the army during the week ending Dec-1 ember 14. General March announced today the war department has about reached the average of thirty thousand discharges daily for which the demobilization demob-ilization plan calls. On a seven day basis the average for that week was 72,000 men per day but in many cases demobilization officers did not operate on Sunday. Additional units In this country designated des-ignated for early demobilization brings the total of men sp selected to 000,000, General March announced. "Up to tho date of latest ojUicIaL reports 2G,903 o7flc"9l'S"Kaa been' Honorably dlschar,g ed. General Pershing has reported that 3,210 American prisoners of war werei repatriated up to December 1G. Of! these 2,653 came through Switzerland; j 32-1 passed through the American front lines. 120 went through Holland and 113 through Denmark. i Those passing through Holland and Denmark are now all en rout6 for England, the dispatch said. General Pershing expressed the opinion that very few American prisoners pris-oners remain In Germany and believed these would be quickly evacuated. He I said a continued search Is being made for isolated prisoners, British and I French officials in Switzerland, Holland Hol-land and Sweden and In Germany Itself It-self aiding in. this search. Every effort is being made to arrange ar-range for the delivery of mall consigned con-signed to units which have been designated des-ignated forQcarly return, tho chief of staff said In case where a majority I of members of army unit have been ordered home, tho mail is held in the United States until the organization arrives and a report is made of the men left in France. The mail addressed to these men is then sorted out and sent across. General March disclosed the fact that the communication facilities with tho American forces in Russia, particularly par-ticularly in the Archangel area, have been very unsatisfactory. The war department de-partment Itself has had difficulty in communicating important mail instructions in-structions to the commander and only meager dispatches have come through I this end. General March said he felt sure that the authorities in England and France through whom these messages mes-sages pass, are doing everything possible pos-sible to improve the situation. General March said that coast ar tillery units which were being used for army and corps artillery are all being returned to this country, but those which were serving as a' divisional di-visional artillery probably will stay abroad for some" time. NEW YORK, Dec. 21 Bringing home 2.042 officers and men of the American expeditionary forces, the British steamship Baltic of the White Star line, passed Sandy Hook at 9: -10 a. m. today. The army transport Motaphan, with 37 officers and 12 enlisted men, discharged dis-charged from the American expeditionary expedi-tionary force and bound for their homes", docked hero today. The Cunard liner Walmer Castle, with several hundred passengers Including In-cluding many Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus workers, ialso came into port. j WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Sailing of ' five transports bringing homo troops from France was announced today by the war department The La France sailed December 17 with 36S officers, 3,337 men. 21 nurses, 15 French mis- sion officers and several civilians. ' On the 18th the Aeolula sailed with 2,929 sick and wounded, including 105 officers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 The Tjl-sondari Tjl-sondari sailed on the ISth, 18 officers and seventy enlisted men, the Sam-land Sam-land on the 17th. with eight officers and four civilians and the Terante on the 18th with. one casual enlisted man, NEW YORK. Dec. 21 The officers on the Baltic numbered 73. Thirty -elght officers.' .and 1,070 men coniijrla- ed companies 1057: 1058: 1059; 1060: 10G1; 1063 and 1064 of the Winchester i casuals, contingents that have been in , training in Winchester, England. There were also six officers and 8G7 men sick and wounded. Including twenty litlqr cases and two mental i cases. |