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Show oo Col. Stimsoo Says He Will Leave Army For His Law Practice CAMP MEADE, Md., Dec. 4. After the soldiers of the 31st field artillery are mustered out Colonel Henry L. Stimson, its commander, who was secretary sec-retary of war under President Taft, will resign and return to his law offices of-fices in New York. He said: "I am a warrior only when there is a war in which I feel It is my duty to serve. I have tried to do my bit, and now that the fighting is over and my command Is about to be demobilized I feel that my duty is done nnd I will return to civil life." Colonel Stimson had the distinction of commanding the battery which fired the first shell from tho national army into the lines of the boche. |