Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
General March Makes Public
Divisions TO Be Sent Home
From French Territory;
Flyers Come at Once
1918 ARE KILLED
OR DIE DURING WAR
Fighters Will Be Hurried to
America; Not to Sneak il"
Says Chief of Staff at Ma
tons Capital

Washington. Nov. 23.-General
March announced to-day that au-
thority had been given to General
Pershing TO send back home all such
troops as will not be needed in max
ing up the army of occupation. He
said that General Pershing had in
dicated that the following units
would not be so required:
Divisions 81, 81, 3S, SO. IS, 81, Sc
and 81.
Coast artillery regiments 46. A..
SO, so, IS and as.
Field artillery brigades 6 and 1O3.
In addition General Pershing indi-
Gated that the following general
classes OF troops will be returned:
Railroad artillery troops. army ar
,illery troops, gas troops, tank corps,
air forces and those divisions which
We're broken TO be used as replace
ments for other divisions which had
seen active service.
Flyers Return Immediately
Troops returning Immediately from
England, General March said. will
include virtually all of the air squad
ron. sixteen construction squadrons.
one sailmakers contingent; one
Handley- Page training station and
several Photographic and radio sec
tions. orders for the return of these
already have been issued.
The compositions of divisions des-
iSnated for return, SO far as known,
is as follows:
Thirty-tirst (GeoI gla. Alabama and
Florida: Thirty-fouIth NEBRASKA,
Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota) !;
Thirty eighth Clndidna, Kentucky
and West Virginia.; Thirty ninth
ARKANSAS, Mississippi, Louisiana) !:
Seventy-siNth (New England); Sew
"nty-eighth West New York, New
Jersey and Delaware); Eighth-sixth
Chicago and Northern Illinois, {;
Eighty-seventh (Arkansas Louisiana.
Mississippi and southern Alabama) .
War Casualties High
Total casualties in the American
Expeditionary Forces up to the sign
ing of the armistice were divided as
follows:
Killed and died of wounds. 36,154.
Died of disease, 3,S11.
Died of other causes, 2,204.
Wounded, 179.625.
Prisoners, 2,16G.
Missing l,16O.
Yankees Take II.OOO Prisoners
The American forces in France, he
said, had taken approximately a.
600 German prisoners and 1,40O
guns. He added that the casualties
among the American forces in north
ern Russia We're not severe, contrary
TO reports, and that encouraging ac-
counts of the situation of the forces
there had been received.
Will Hurry Troops From France
Movements of troops from France
will be expedited in every way, he
said, and added that they will not
sneak into the country, either"
Taking up the present advance of
the Allied forces, General March
pointed out that the American Army
is heading for Cobicnz, the center
bridgehead on the Thine, where it
should arrive about December 1. The
British forces will occupy the bridge
head to the north at Cologne and the
French the bridgehedd to the east
at MainZ.
The strength of the American
Army TO be maintained In France
was not indicated beyond the demo-
bilization plans announced. Ameri-
can troops in Italy. including the
Three Hundred Thirty-second Infan-
try. will be stationed for the time
being at Cattaro, Fiume and Trieste.
one battalion of the infantry being
located at each place.
DemobiliZation of the forces at
home is proceeding steadily. On
arriving at Camp Dix yesterday, Cen
eral March said, ne found two hun
dred men day being released.
Several of the present camps will
he abandoned as soon as they are
cleared OF their occupants.