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Show RETURNING THE SOLDIERS TO THEIR HOMES. One of the cabinet officers, in reviewing the work of demobilization claims that the present achie emcnt has far eclipsed the work eithci of the Civil var or Spanish war. To date nearly two million men have been brought back from overseas. over-seas. Within a month only 7000 troops will be left on the Rhine, if new regiments arc not sent across to displace the men who enlisted for Sl'lf the period of the war. All but 300,000 of the fou r million men draw n into the seivice have been released. There will be less than 35,000 men in all France by next Monday. Secretary Baker says that in one month after the signing of the armistice America had demobilized 351,206 men and 16,000 officers. In 1898 it took ten months to muster out 197,397 of the 216,256 officers of-ficers and men serving when the American forces in that war was at its peak. Certain units were demobilized from the Philippines even later than that. In the Ciil war the strength of the volunteer arm was 1,034,064 when demobilization began. It took from May 1 , 1865, lo November 1 , 1 866, or eighteen months, to muster out this force. In approximately two and l half months after the armistice this coun-trty coun-trty had mustered out 1 ,023,884 men and 62,000 officers, thus more than equalling the eighteen-month lecord of the Civil war. |