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Show MARCH REVIEWS i MOM ! , Company L of 339th Infantry Are Identified: FIRST U. S. CASE Direct Line for Supply and Reinforcements Kept Open. j WASHINGTON. April 12 Company' 1 Ol the o39th infantry was identified i I today bv General March as Ihe unit I which recently refused to return to i front line trenches in the Archangel sector when ordered to do so by Its officers. i A supplementary report to the department de-partment on the incident said it was worthy of note thai the questions put by th" men of Company I to their of ificers ' were identical with the questions ques-tions which Bolshevik propaganda ad-, ad-, vloed Ihi.l tit? pi;i fo ih.nET. The department has not received copies of the Bolshevik leaflets eon -jtaining these questions and General I March said he was extremely anxious I to secure one. "in my long service," t'.eneral March said. "I don't recall another an-other instance where American soldiers sol-diers did not want to go into a fight. They always have said "lead us to it.' " j A report from Murmansk dated iMarch 28 said the ( nda bridge on the railroad south of Murmansk had been j rebuilt, restoring communication with J the southernmost post of the Allies W hile the actual situation of the small commands of the expedition in north Russia is not known, General March said the re-opening of com -: munication 1o the south over the Onda j bridge solved any military question i since it afforded a direct line for sup-plj sup-plj and reinforcements. Communication between Murmansk and Archangel is being kept open with I the assistance of ice-breakers. General March did not indicate what I the latest reports showed as to the pre? pi.r - laie of discipline among the American force. Demobilization of Army. Demobilization has reduced th-total th-total strength of the American arm" below two million. Complete reports ! tc April 8, announced today by Gcn-I Gcn-I oral March, showed the aggregate strength on that date to be 1,980,506. Since November 11th, 6SC.114 have sailed for home and up to April 8th. 605,772 had been landed There have been returned to civil life 1,701.469 officer? and men, 5u per cent of the officers i nd 46 per cent of tho men who were in the army when the armistice arm-istice v as signed Discharge criers now total 1,925,000. |