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Total aboard, SO officers, Z,943 men.
On Lapland.
On the Lapland are these units
and casuals:
First Handley-Page training sec
ton, l26 officers, 449 men; Goth
photograph section, l officer, 80
men; 10th photograph section. l Of
fcer, 80 men; 7lst photograph sec
ton, officer, so men; I'D section,
| officer, % men; sailmakers' de-
tachment, officer, 100 men; 265th
aero squadron, 2 officers, llo men;
263d squadron, 2 officers, Us men;
256th squadron, 2 officers, l26 men;
320th squadron. 8 officers, l23 men:
3l4th air squadron. 2 officers, 1874
men; 3lSth squadron officers, l2O
men; 3s0th squadron, 3 officers, III
men; 8l2th squadron, 3 officers, 323
men; air service casuals, a officers;
mixed casuals, II officers, enlisted
man, former nurse; casuals. sick
and Wounded, 7 officers, IA men not
requiring special attention; enlisted
men attached to wounded officers, g.;
nurses casual medical detachment,
5 officers, IL men. Total, 233 officers,
4 nurses, 1877 other ranks.
: On Orca. II
On the steamer Orca, which sailed
from Liverpool for New York, No
vember % are:
470th aero squadron, 2 officers, l27
men; 47lst squadron, 3 officers, l4l
men; 47Sth squadron, 6 officers, IFS
men; 479th squadron, a officers. l4O
men; 224th squadron, 2 officers, 225
men, 10th squadron, 2 officers, l26
men; 26lst squadron, 3 officers, l44
men; sO6th squadron, 2 officers, Al
men; 82d squadron. 3 officers, ll9
men, 824th squadron. 4 officers, SO
men; S3lst squadron, 3 officers, lO6
men; 836th squadron. 4 officers, lO9
men; 852d squadron, 4 officers, l25
men; Sd construction company, air
service, 4 officers, 235 men; casuals,
medical department. officers, II
men. Total, so officers, 1874 men.
Ships Only Limit.
Before General March's announce
ment, Secretary Baker discussed
with newspaper correspondents the
return of American troops from
France. Their homeward move
ments. he said is dependent almost
entirely upon the limitation Of trans
portation facilities both at sea and in
France.
Besides employing in this work
the German liners seized in this
country, Dutch vessels taken over
and all other available transports
Mr.. Baker said some part of the
British transport tonnage employed
in carrying troops to France will
continue to be used in getting the
men home, He pointed out, how
ever, that Great Britain will need
many of her ships to carry home
Canadian, Australian New Zealand
and other colonial forces which have
been in France longer than the
American armies,
Big Liners in Service.
The secretary said that the great
British liners Mauritania, Olympic
and Aquitania have been in the
American transport service for a
year and that the Mauritania still is
so engaged.
He could not say whether the
other two had been withdrawn.
German liners now in German
ports, Mr.. Baker said, may offer a
means of expediting the return of the
American forces. Present plans are
to use these vessels to carry food
to Germany and the secretary said it
might be found possible to make
some arrangement under which some
of General Pershing's men could
be sent home on them. Before sail
ing for Europe to arrange for the re-
turn of the troops, Chairman Hurley
of the shipping board said it was the
purpose to use ships now idle in Ger
man ports. Mr.. Baker. however,
did not indicate today that any def
mite steps to that end have yet been
taken.
With the removal of the scbmar-
inc menance the war secretry said
it will be possible to bring home
many soldiers in cargo vessels. The
shipping board is commissioning
many such vessels from day to day,
and they will be added to the fleet
available for the return Of the army
Bring Sick Home First.
For the next several weeks, Mr..
Baker expects returning troops to
be laden entirely with sick and
wounded men and those not i'm
mediately available for military ser
vice such as the men who have been
discharged from hospitals in France,
but who have not fully recovered
their strength. They will be organic