Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-03
FIRST U. S. men
SAIL FOR HOME
Several Thousand American Sol
diers Cheered by Crowds
at Liverpool.
81, 1863 YANks Die IN WAR
General March Says Pershine ls Au-
thorized to Send Back All Troops
Not Needed for Army of
Occupation.

Liverpool, Nov. 25.-Several thou
sand American soldiers sailed for
home Friday on the liners Lapland
and Minnehaha. 1t was q stirring
scene as the men marched from the
railway station and local camps to
the landing stage amid the rousing
cheers from the throngs of people
along the streets.
Washington, Nov. 25.-General
March announced that authority had
been given to General Pershing to send
back home all such troops as will not
be needed in making up the army of
occupation. He said that General Per
shing had Indicated that the following
units would be required:
Divisions "a, Sc, 81, 81, "a, 3S, SO,
T6, s; coast artillery regiments 46, Al.
40, so, rs and 76; field artillery brig
AIDES 65 and 103.
In addition General Pershing indi-
Gated that the following general
classes of troops will be returned:
Railroad artillery troops, army ar
tillery troops, gas troops, tank corps.
air forces and those divisions which
were broken up to be used as replace
ments for other divisions which had
seen active service.
Troops returning Immediately from
England. General March said, will in
clude virtually all of the air squad
rons, 16 construction companies, one
sail-makers detachment. one Handley-
Page training station and several pho
tographic and radio sections.
The composition of divisions desig-
mated for return as far as known. is
as follows:
Thirty-frst Georgia. Alabama and
Florida; Thirty-fourth (Nebraska,
Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota) {;
Thirty-eighth (Indiana, Kentucky and
West Virginia) Seventy-sixth New
England); Seventy eighth (West New
York, New Jersey and Delaware).
General March announced that
among the divisions that will be re-
turned from France as not needed for
the army of occupation will be the
Eighty-sixth (Blackhawk) division.
(The Eighty-sixth was trained at
Camp Grant and includes many Chi
cago and northern Illinois troops.)
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, 1851; died from
other causes, 2,2O4 wounded, 1925 /;
prisoners, 2,163; missing, 1,16o.
The American forces in France, Cen
eral March said, had taken $4,000 Ger
man prisoners In round numbers and
1,400 guns. He added that the cas-
ualties among the American forces In
Northern Russia were not severe, con-
trary to reports and that encourag-
ing accounts of the situation of the
| forces there had been received.
Movement of troops from France
will be expedited in every way, the
chief of staff said, and he added that
they will not 'sneak into the country,
either" Taking up the present adj
vance of the allies forces, General
March pointed out that the American
army is heading for Coblenz, the cen
ter bridgehead on the Rhine where
it should arrive about December l.
Decentralization of the forces at home
is proceeding steadily.
Washington, Nov. 25.-General Per-
| shing's communique says: "Headquar-
| tiers American EXpeditionary Forces,
Nov. 25!-The Sd army continued its
progress through the grand duchy Of
Luxembourg to the line Ingelderf-Detz-
dOrf- Remich-S chengen.
(Remich is on the Prussian from
| tier)