Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
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ficers and 1855 men. Additional units
OF the Ninety-second and Eighty-seventn
divisions, with some coast artillery regi-
ments and engineers. are included.
In the additional units which General
Pershing has designated for early re-
turn are 1926 officers and 29,3s1 en-
| listed men.
Announcement was made of the sail
| ing from France of the transports
.Susquehanna. Santa Anra and Dekaio,
with sick. wounded and casuals The
Santa Anna and DeKalb sailed Decem'
ber 2. and may be expected to arrive
in New York about December II. Inc
DeKalb has on board eleven naval OF
flcers and 574 naval enlisted men. Inc
Susquehanna sailed from France on
November 90, and is due to arrive IN
New York December 10.
On Way to America
The Susauehanna is bringing casual
company No. 101, consisting of two OF
ncers and 100 men. and casuals con-
sisting of two officers and 1855 men In
addition. The Santa Anna has on board
forty-eight officers. twenty-one enlisted
men and seventy-nine civilians. The De"
Kalb has only a limited number, thirty
three officers and one man.
Answering question regarding re-
ports that the Eleventh Division, now at
Camp Meade, is being kept intact for
some special work, General March said :
"It is not true. The Eleventh is a
combatant division and It's demobiliza-
tion will come after the other eight classes
of enlisted men, which I have already
announced The Eleventh, like many of
the divisions which were organizing
when the armistce was signed. contains
regular regiments and those regiments
will he used for guard duty in the
various camps after the troops from the
National Army have been withdrawn
General March announced that a.
home during the last week more than
200, 900 men had been released. The
total number of officers released up to
yesterday was 1858 The discharge sys-
TEN is being rapidly speeded up as the
men in charge of it become more ac-
customed to the operations.
Is,4O6 Embark for Home
The total of returning troops already
actually embarked for home was an.
nounced as S54 officers, 1853 men. 1sE
civilians. two nurses and two prisoners
| Additional units assigned to early re
turn home include:
Three Hundred and Twelfth Sup
ply Train, Companies and D
Ambulance Company 346; Forty-nintl
Regiment Coast Artillery Corps
Headquarters Company and Batterie!
c, u, + and r; Advance School Detach
ment from Eleventh and Twelfth Di
visions: Companies L, +, G. and II, 345tl
Infantry; Fifty-flfth, Fifty-slxth an,
Fifty-seventh Regiments, Coast Artil
lery Headquarters Thirty-first Artil
| lery Brigade. Coast Artillery Corps.
Three Hundred and Forty-sixth In
fantry; 335th , Machine-Gun Battal
ion; advance school detachments
Tenth and Eighth Divisions. and Eleventh
Field Artillery Brigade: Casual Com
pany l. Chemical Warfare Service
30lst Field Artillery: Headquarters ant
Supply Company, Eighth Anti Aircraft
Sector. with First Second. Third an,
Fourth Anti"Aircraft Batteries, ant
Eighth Anti-Aircraft Mobile Ordnanc,
Repair Unit.
| The Third and Eighth trench morta
batteries: headquarters Ninth anti-air
craft sector. with the Tenth and th'
First, Second and Third provisional anti
aircraft batteries; Fifth Corps artiller!
park; Sixty-fifth regiment Coast Artil
lery; 4O1st pontoon park, and the 466th
467th and 46sth pontoon trains.
Six Artillery Regiments
Six artillery regiments, the 349th
S5Oth, 351st. Eighty-frst, Eghty-thirc
and Second; engineer casual compan,
No 1; headquarters and first battalion
S01st pioneer infantry; Fortieth engi
neers; second advance school Tentt
Field Artillery Brigade; Third heav,
mobile ordnance repair unit: 319th en-
gineers and train; headquarters 1914
and Eighth Artillery Brigade: headquar
ters troops Eighty second Division.
Three Hundred and Thirty-nintl
Machine-Gun Battalion; 317th' TrenCl
Mortar Battery; military police train
ing headquarters and supply, sani
tary. and ammunition trains; 325tl
Field Signal Battalion; Company f ant
Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, 317tl
Engineers; Company E. 319th Engi
neers; Second, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
| Heavy Mobile Ordnance Repair Shops
Fourth and Fifth Anti-Aircraft Machine
Gun Battalion Companies F, !, K. D, +
G. II. and medical detachment, Secon,
Engineers.
eth Losses Not Enormous
To set at rest numerous rumors re
garding enormous casualties in tn
Twenty-seventh (New York; Division
General March announced that after
careful examination of casualty lists
had been found that the total casualtie
reported from all causes in this division
were forty-four officers and i109 men.
Since the stay Of the army of occu
patton abroad is indefinite, Genera
March said 1t would be necessary to asl
Congress for new enlistment Legislation
Under the present law no provision /
made for such force as will be needle,
after the four months from the signin
of peace, when the war army must b
discharged.
So far as transportation Is concerned