Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-15
|DES|GNATES UNITS
SOON TO RETURN
Rapid Progress Reported by Gen
eral March in Demobiliz-
ing Camps
ACCOMPLISHMENTS REVIEWED
Makeup of American Army of
Occupation Is Also An
nounced.

army is speeding up the discharge OF
men In american camps. the rate being
io'Veo daily, with prospect of tho
rate being raised to 10000 within q
short time, according TO the weekly
statement to-day by General March,
chief of staff y total of $4,000 men
is designated for release to civilian
life as soon as the army machinery
can turn them out. To date, 17,2O3 Of
1cers have been released in the United
States and 1873 officers. 30,T50 men, 460
civilians and two prisoners have sailed
from Europe for home ports. Total
Christmas packages shipped abroad
are 2,24S,000
dustrial furloughs. $4,000 in depot
origades, development battalions and
troops, $4,000 corps and army troops, troops,
$4,000 coast artillery, $4,000 engineers,
Soo 3;Too medical corps. 1000 ordnance. 81
Guards. $4,000 military aeronautics, 30.-
GOO spruce production, 1000 tank corps.
1000 lhemical warfare. 6.ooo anthracite
coal miners, 10000 special service
units, 10000 army training corps, 3O,-
ooU at central officers training schools.
5000 attached to local draft boards and
1000 Porto Rico troops.
The following troops have been as
signed to return early from Europe:
Company B. Three Hundred and Nine
bile Ordnance Repair Shop; Fifth and
Sixth Mobile Ordnance Repair Shops;
Fourth and Fifth Antiaircraft Machine
Ordnance Repair Shop; Second Engi-
neers. Companies f. 1 ana K, and Med
Lea ieal companies D. Z. G and n. One
Machine Gun Battalion: Tenth Anti
aircraft Sector Headquarters; Sixth,
Seventh. Eighth and Ninth Antiaircraft
Fat Loo
4. c.. Headquarters and Headquarters rs
Company; = q supply c9mp,eny; Batteries
and Fourteenth Pioneer Infantry (col-
ored); First Battalion Headquarters
Detachment Supply Company and Med
Seventy second and One Hundred and
Hundred and Sixteenth Three Hundred
teenth Trench Mortar Batteriesi IS Chem
ieal Warfare Service Casual Company
ment; One. Hundred and Fifty-first
Aero SQUADRON: Fourth Regim ent Air
Service Mechanics. Eleventh. Twelfth,
Aero Squadron Medical Detachment; t.
One Hundred and Thirty-scventh Aero
Hundred and Seventy-third Aero
Squadron Medical Detachment: Twen-
ty-ninth Engineers Detachment Com
One Hundred and Seventy-siXth, Two
Hundred and Forty-seventh and Two
Hundred and Sixty-fourth Aero Squad
first. Twenty-second and Twenty-sixth
Photo Sections Air Service: Twenty
ninth Engineers Company F and De-
TALON and Fifty-third Ammunition
Train; Fifty-frst Regiment c. A. c.
REVIEWS WORK DONE BY
NISETY-FIRST DIVISION
General March said that the Ninety
first Division reached England between
July II and 26, and on October 81 was
sent to Flanders to operate with the
French: On November l the division
advanced about five miles against ar
tillery and machine-gun fire and
reached the heights northwest of Eu-
denard, overlooking the Scheldt On
duty and on the following day were
Withdrawn 10 billet area.
Reports that the Eighty-second Di-
hcers and men and that the Three Hun
dred and Iwenty-eighth Infantry had
lost All officers were denied by Gem
second had asked for 224 replacement
officers and $3.50 men.
1t was stated that the Fourteenth
Engineers, from New England. were at
Rattentout. Vilesnes- and Alb
lainville on November 81, being at
tached to the First Army.
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to late November reports, consisted Of
the following divisions and their COM
ponent units:
First Division. Sixteenth, Eighteenth,
Twenty-siNth and Twenty-eight Reg
iments; Second Division, Nincty-eighth
and Twenty-third Infantry and Fifth
and Sixth Marines; Third Division,
Fourth, Seventh, Thirtieth and Thirty
eighth Regiments: Fourth Division,
Thirty-ninth. Forty-seventh, Fifty
eighth and Fifty-ninth Regiments:
Fifth Division. Sixth. Eleventh. Six
tieth and Sixty-,first Regiments; Thir-
Twenty-fifth to One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth Regiments inclusive;
Forty-second Division, One Hundred
and SiNty-ffth to One Hundred and
Sixty eighth Regiments inclusive;
Seventy-ninth Division. Three Hundred
and Thirteenth to Three Hundred and
Sixteenth Regiments inclusive; Eigh-
ty-ninth Division; Three Hundred and
Fifty-th third to Three Hundred and Fifty
Sixth Regiments inclusive: Ninetieth
Division, Three Hundred and Fifty
seventh to Three Hundred and Sixtieth
Regiments inclusive; Seventh Division.
Thirty-fourth. Fifty-ffth. Fifty-sixth
and Sixty-fourth Regiments; Twenty
eighth Division, One Hundred and Ninth
20 One Hundred and Twelfth Regi-
mentS inclusive; Thirty-thir Division,
One Hundred and Twenty ninth to
One Hundred and Thirty-second Regi-
ments inclusive.