Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-16
ARMY CAMPS WILL
BE DEm0b|LIzED and
TROOPS RETURNED
(By international News Service)

International News SeryIce(
WASHINGTON, Nov. l6-The United States
government today extended credit Of $500 ,OOO,-
OOOto Belgium, the Czecho-Slovak national coun-
cl Great Britain and Italy.
The loan to the Czecho-Slovak national council
is the first extended by this country and followed
closely recognition of the council by America.
Washington, Nov. l6.-The war department
plan for demobilizing the 100000 in the camps
and cantonments of this country was outlined to-
day by General March, chief OF staff, at his weekly
conference with representatives OF the press
The demobilizing will be in nine stages. The
first to be discharged will be the development bat
TALON, of which there are seventy-one, carrying
more than %, 900 members Next to be discharg-
ed will be the spruce production division; then the
central training schools; and the national guard OF
which there are 5000, will follow. The sixth
lot to be demobilized will be the railroad division,
followed by the depot brigade and the replacement
division with the combatant division last of all.
1t will take some time to muster these men out,
the general explained, but he already has the ma
chnery in motion and said that he expects to dis
charge 100000 in the course of the next two weeks
or at the rate of 30 600 day.
Before being mustered out every man will be
subjected to a physical examination and it will be
necessary to check up his status with the bureau
of war insurance. Blanks for the latter procedure
already have been provided by the department. the
chief of staff said
Men who enlisted in the regular army for the
duration of the war and who wish to remain in the
service will receive their discharge with the under
standing that they may re-enlist. They will then
receive an honorable discharge, month turlough
and month IS pay as a bonus.
). War department officials will soon 60 before
congress, General March revealed to ask for legs-
lation that gives every man honorably discharged
from the service month pay bonus, whether or
not he reenlists Following their discharges the
men will be permitted to wear their uniforms tor
three months.
Aside from the officers who apply for commits
sion in what will be the regular army and in the Of
hcers reserve corps officers in the service will be
+" discharged as fast as possible.
d No more troops will be sent overseas, General
+ March announced, and the order in which the
. troops now abroad will be returned to the United
States will be left entirely to the discretion of Cen
u eral Pershng The chief Of staff has requested
however, that as soon as the necessary transports
are available the sick and wounded convalescents
and casuals be returned Immediately.
German Fleet to Surrender.
m London, Nov 10, 3:l5 p. MT is understood
~ that the German naval ENJOYS have agreed to sur
s. render the German fleet, the estimated value of
which is $3.50 ,000 as rsult of the conference
in opened last night
50 The German fleet is to be taken to the Orkney
N. Islands of northern Scotland it is said.
in German Battleships Sunk.
m London, Nov. l6.-The German battleship
Schlesien, which refused to join the revolutionsts
&C. was sunk by torpedo firing from two revolutionary
Is warships with her entire crew, while route to
ne Norway, said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen today
ond on Nov 16-Dr So1f former German