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Show Ill MIS . VISITS PARENTS SALT LAKE, Dec 23 Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, chief of embarkation em-barkation of the United States army, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Hines, 310 South Third East street, paid a hurried visit to his parents last night. General Hines arrived from San Francisco late in the evening and will leave for Washington at noon today. General nines Is wearing a new order, or-der, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, which was conferred upon him by His Imperial Highness Prince Hagashr Fushimi, a cousin of the emperor of ; Japan, whom ho escorted from Wash ington to San Francisco en route to his home In Yokohama. The prince had been In London on official business bus-iness for his government and itopped in Washington on his way homo to confer high honors on General Peyton Pey-ton C. March, General Hines and Colonel J. C. Cordlor. On General March was conferred the Grand Cor- don of the Rising Sun, the highest of all imperial Japanese orders and on General Cordler the Third Order of the Rising Sun. General Hines was named as tho escort to tho prince and I Is now on the return journey of his I transcontinental trip. "Our boys are coming back rapidly," rapid-ly," said General Hines, "the work all being carried out according to the program pro-gram which was laid by the chief o.f staff. Incidentally the newspapers and the people have a fortunate main In General March. He Is thoroughly in accord with the Idea of taking the people Into his confidence and he meets frankly every day with the newspaper representatives In Wash-' Ington. "Tho troops arc coming home or rather were when I left early this month at the rate of about 200.000 a month. The homeward movoment Is exactly the reverse of that which took ; the men over and the success of the 'pr'.B whole affair is due to the team work jjCJ In the embarkation service, which JjW movos the men from their camps to j7(ti the seaboard and thence to France fiHin and necessarily all their supplies n jrH. well. At the present time our work XL consists of getting the vessels to France, there the loading is In charge . of General Pershing. Then we take W charge, disembark them in tho Uni-; , ted States and send them to the mUS"vi terlng out camps. "When I left Washington I do notj : bellove that any official date had beonW:, i set for the sailing of the 146th tfe'djjto-- 4 artillery. However, I understand tQat;JHf j all the artillery, excepting the dlrlsK lonal artillery, is to be brought homew , just as rapidly as possible." -iBL |