Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-07

! elBnt FORCES.
.. 130,S40 Coming Home
The personnel assigned by Gem
eral Pershing for early return home
was given by General March as o.
325 officers and 125,515 men. Addi-
tional units of the 92nd and Sfth
divisions, with some coast artillery
regiments and engineers, are in
cluded.
100000 Yankees Out of War
General March announced that at
home during the past week more
than 100000 men had been released.
The total number of officers released
up to yesterday was 1858. The dis
charge system is being repidly
speeded up as the men in charge of
it become more accustomed to the
operations,
Three TRANSPORTS on Way Over
Announcement was made of the
sailing from France of the trans
ports Susquehanna, Santa Anna and
De Kalb, with sick, wounded and
casuaLs. The Santa Anna and De
Kalb sailed December and may
be expected to arrive in New York
about December II. The De Kalb
has on board eleven naval officers
and 574 naval enlisted men.
Susquchanna Due Dec. 10
The Susquehanna sailed on No
vember 29 and is due to arrive in
New York December 10.
The total of returning troops al
ready actually mbarked for home
was announced at S54 officers, H.
1868 men, 1S5 civilians, two nurses
and two prisoners.
Casualties Among New Workers
To set at rest numerous reports
regarding enormous casualties in the
27th (New York; division, General
March announced that after a care
full examination of casualty lists it
had been found taht the total cas-
ualties reported from all causes in
the division was A officers and L.
100 men.
New Enlistment Law Needed
Since the stay of the army of occu-
patton abroad is indefinite, General
March said it would be necessary to
ask Congress for new enlistment leg
islation. Under the present law no
provision is made for such a force
as will be needed after the four
months from the signing of peace.
when the war army must be dis
charged.
Home Within -Four Months
So far as transportation is con-
cerned, the chief of staff said. it
would be easy to bring home all Ma
tional Guard and National Army divi-
sions within the four months. The
camps to which each large unit will
be sent for rehabilitation will be
announced as soon as General Per-
shing cables that the unit has started
for home.
Additional units assigned to early
return home include Three Hundred
Twelfth Supply Train. Companies c
and d; Ambulance Company 346;
Forty ninth Regiment, Coast Artil-
lery Corps. Headquarters Company
and Batteries c, D, E and F.; advance
school detachment from Eleventh
and Twelfth divisions; Company T.,
L. G and III. Three Hundred Forty
fifth Infantry: Fifty-ffth, Fifty-siXth
and Fifty-seventh Regiments, Coast
Artillery; Headquarters, Thirty y-flrst
Artillery Brigade, Coast Artillery
Corps
S46th infantry. 335th machine
gun battalion; advance school de-
tachments, Tenth and Eighth divi-
! sions, and eleventh field artillery
brigade; casual Company 1. Chem
ical warfare service; 3O1st field
/ artillery; headquarters and supply
company, eighth anti-aircraft sec
tion,' with first. second, third and
Fourth anti-alrcrafa batteries and
eighth anti-aircraft mobile ord
narce repair unit.
The third and eighth trench NOR
tar batteries: headquarters ninth
! anti-aircraft section. with the Tenth
and the first. second and third pro-
visional anti-aircraft batteries; fifth
corps artillery park; 65th regiment.
coast artillery. 401st pontoon park
and the 466th. 467th and 46Sth pom
toon trains.
Six artillery regiments, the 249th,
350th. 351st, S1st, S34. and second:
engineer casual company No. 1.
! headquarters and first battalion
S01st pioneer infantry; 40th engi-
neers; second advance school Tenth
artillery brigade; third sieavy mobile
! ordnance repair unit; 319th cngi-
neers and train; headquarters 18TH
and Sth field artillery brigade: head
quarters troop 92nd division.
339th machine gun battalion;
military police training headquarters
and supply; sanitary and ammuni-
tion trains; 325th field signal bat
talon; company T.. and mobile ord
nance repair shop. 317th engineers:
company e, 319th engineers; second
fifth, sixth and seventh heavy mo-
bile ordnance repair shops; f0urth
and fifth anti-aircraft machine gun
battalion. companies +. | K. ID. T.,
G. II. and medical detachment. sec
ord engineers.
In the additional units which
General Pershing has designated for
early returns are .426 officers and
29,3S1 enlisted men