Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-22
HDME MILITARY
 OEMI)B|LIzED AZ
 3O,l)0O PER DAY
teen Thousand Have Been Mustered Out: 90O.0 .000 Assigned to Go.

Washington, Dee. 21.--~Demobliza- tion of the home military forces at the rate of @0,O00 a day, the goal set less than a month ago by the war depart ment has been reached, if not exceed ed.
 Total demobliZaton on December l4th had reached 9903 officers and 1SS,562 men. The chief of staff said more than 900 00OO men have been assigned for early Rehabilitation, in cludng 21,oo0 divisional troops 43, 0O0 engineers and l,60O men of the I military aeronautics division. With a total of 1SS,5 men discharg l ed from the army during tre week end 1 ing December IA, General March m- nounced today, the War Department has about reached the average of 30, | O0O discharges daily for which the demobilization plans call.
 | On d seven-day basis the average for 1 that week was 27,00o men per day, but in many cases rehabilitation offices did not operate on Sunday.
 Additional units in this country designated for early demObilizatlon
 brings the total of men so selected up
 to 90O,000 General March announced. l Up to the date of the latest official
 reports 26,903 officers had been honor ably discharged
 General Pershing has reported that 3.210 American prisoners of war were
 repatriatedNup to December 16. Of
 these 2,653 came through Switzerland, 324 passed through the American
 front line; 120 went through Holland
 and 113 through Denmark. Those passing through Holland and Den-
 mark are now all en route for Eng
 land, the dispatch said.
 General Pershing expressed the
 opinion that very few American pris-
 oners remain in Germany, and believed
 these would be quickly evacuated. He
 said continued search is being made
 for isolated prisoners, British and
 French officials in Switzerland Hol1 land and Sweden and in Germany it,
 self. aiding in the search.
 It. Appointment of Major General Charles T. Menohor, who commanded the Forty-second (Rainbow) division succeeding John D. Ryan, was an nounced today by General March. As an illustration of the heavy flow of troops returning from France or board the largest ship, General Marcf
 announced that the steamer Levathian
 making 10 trips, had carried an aver
 age of 9,41S men to France on eacf
 trip. Seven other ships, of unusua
 tonnage average better than 2,000 mer
 per trip.
 Every effort is being made to ar range for delivery of mail consigned tt units which have been designated fol early return, the chief of staff said In cases where majority of the mem
 bers of any unit have been ordered
 home, the mail is held in the United States until the organization arrive: l and report is made of the men lief } in France the mail addressed to these l men then is sorted out and sent across $ In cases where only small propor 5 tion of a unit is homeWard bound the : mail for the entire unit is shipped t( 5 France and that to men who have re
 turned home is sorted out in France r and redirected.
 7 General March disclosed the fact f. that the communication facilities Witl 1 the American forces in Russia, parti E cularly in the Archangel area, hav' 9 been very unsatisfactory. The war de - partment itself has had difficulty il g communicating important military in r struction to the commander and onl. s meager dispatch through this end.
 In answer to question Genera
 March said that coast artillery unit
 which were being used for army an
 corps artillery are all being returne
 to this country, but those which wer serving as divisional artillery prob , ably vii lstay abroad for some time.