Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-23

lWarCn, ChleT or stair, an
nounced at his weekly
conference with repre-
sentatives Of the press today. The
other casualties based on practically
complete reports, according to Gen.
eral Pershing, were revealed as fol-
lows: Died of disease 1881; death
unclassifed, 2,2O4; wounded, 179,625;
taken prisoner, 2,163, and missing in
action, 1,l6O. Grand total, 236,117.
! Germans taken prisoners by the
Americans total $4,000 and the cap.
tured big guns, trench guns, ETC.,
reached total of about 1,400, General
March said
The chief of staff also made public
the first combat division that will be
returned from France Just when
they will start for home he was un-
able to say today, but hoped to have
that information to make public in a
short time. The first combat divisions
to leave the scenes of the triumph are
the Thirty-first, Thirty-eighih, Thirty
NINTH Seventh-sixth, Eighty-fourth,
Eighty-sixth and Eightyseventh. The
following regiments of coast artillery
! also will be among the first to sail for
America: Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth ard
Seventy-fourth. The Sixty-ffth and
One Hundred and Sixty-third Brigade
will be the first of the field artillery
to embark for these shores
The first troops to be sent back, of
, course, will be noncombatants, the
| general pointed out AS they can be
= spared men of the railway engineers,
the army engineers, tank troops, air
service troops and the remainder of
! the various replacement divisions will
| board transports
The object of the American army
! of occupation, General March revealed,
is Coblentz. This army covered a dis
+ tance of fifty miles from Nov. II to
" Nov. %, and at this rate would arrive
1 about Dec. The las. report was about
a seventy miles from CoblentZ. Refer
r ring to troops in Italy, General March
said that there was one battalion at
r Cattarro, another at Fiume and a
S third at Trieste. The air service
\ squadron, construction unit and radio
G unit now in England will come home
on the first available transport, it was
stated.
Referring to Christmas gifts, Gen.
eral March said that the first ship to
sail with presents to the boys was
the Manchuria, which cleared from
\ Hoboken on Nov % with $50 .OG0 ind-
4 yidual packages. Ships will leave at
regular intervals of five days, at re-
q quest Of General Pershing, SO that
=. railway facilities may be arranged at
the other side for moving the pack.
ages with the least possible conges.
ton.
Establish Dctatorshlps.
y London, Nov. 23.-Dictatorships
" have been established in Dussedrf
" and Frankfort by the German radi.
0 calls, led by the Spartacus group. said
T. an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
'L Copenhagen today.
= The extremes are masters in Sein.
gen and Remschoid
)f Fighting again broke QUO in Berlin
on Thursday night, when followers of
the Spartacus group attempted to
a. storm the police station There was
severe fighting around the buildini,
II Great excitement prevails az Ham
burg, where there is a strong counter
revolutionary uprising. The Sparta
Gus groups are the German extremes
and are strong bolshevik
a. McAdoo Picks Another Job.
- New York. Nov. %. Reports were
current in fnacia circles here today
that Secreary Of the Treasury McAd2t
't' has been selected to succeed Benja
min Strong as governor of the New
York Federal Reserve Bank. It 4
= said Mr. Strong intends to resign OF
account of poor health.
New Candidate for Speaker.
"a. Washington Nov. GA new candI
date for the speakership OF tn,
House when the Republicans com,
into control March was put forwar,
by midwestern Republicans in Repre-
MI sentative viii K. Wood Of Indian.
Belgium Gets More Loans.
Washington Nov 23--An additlona
to credit Of S560O,OO In favor of Bel
ST gium was established today by Secre