The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-30
100000 RETURN
IN DECEMBER
Besides Troop Transports,
Government Will Use
Old Battleships
300, 900 A MONTH MAY
LATER RETURN
Gen. March Announced Cas-,
ualties Have Grown to 262,-
723, Without Prisoners

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Washington, d. c., Nov. General
Pershing has designated for early convoy
to the United States total OF 3,45l Off
eers and 1868 men, General March an
nouneed to-day. The units comprising
these men will be made public later
In the list appear as entire divisions,
the 39th, 10th and the S7th The other
troops comprise artillery units and army
corps troops.
General March gave out amended cas-
ualty reports from General Pershing Civ
ing the official total to Nov. 26 as 262, ,723,
exclusive of prisoners The figures on
prisoners We're uninteligible in the cable
gram. General March said the total un-
der this head probably would be virtually
the same as announced last Saturday.
General Pershing reported the follow
ing official casualties to Nov. 26:
Killed in action, 2S,363.
Died of wounds, IL ,l0l.
Died Of disease, 1904.
Died of other causes, $50.
Missing in action, 1920.
Prisoners (unintelligible1.
Wounded ls9,955, divided as follows:
Severely wounded, 5475l; undetermined,
43, l6s; slightly, 92,036.
The war department expects to bring
back home in December between 100000
and 10000, General March said. To ac.
complish this it viii use in addition to
army transports and converted cargo
boats, enough old battleships and eruis-
ers TO furnish an additional carving ca.
pacity for $4,000 men, Shipping experts
expect TO transport 100000 monthly
when the rehabilitation is under full
speed.
Demobilization at Home.
The total number of troops already
designated for early discharge in the
United States was given as $4,000
These include depot and development
battalions, 26,000; divisional troops, TO-.
600; railway troops, 2s,000i United
States guards, 26,000; tank corps, 1000;
chemical warfare troops, 1000; central
officers training schools, 10000; student
army training corps, 100000.
To date 46,37S men have been mustered
out of the camps in this country The
schedule under which the department is
working calls for the release of an aver
age of 1000 men per camp per day, and
General March said every effort would be
made tomaintain the average
Revised army estimates for the COM
| ing year resulted in cutting the Sl9,000,-
100000 of army appropriations to less
than three billions, General March an.
nounced
General Pershing has been directed by
President Wilson to confer the distin-
guished service medal on General Bliss,
Lieutenant Generals Liggett and Bullard,
and Major Generals Dickman, Mean
drews and Harbord
General March corrected an erroneous
impression that the 2Tth and 30th di-
visions, reported as withdrawn from the
British lines, had been designated for
early return to the United States. These
two divisions, he explained, have been
returned to Pershing's command and
have not been assigned for transporta-
tion home.
Plans for bringing soldiers home, it
was announced, include the use of hos
pital ships for severely wounded and
specially fitted transports for the slight
ly wounded and convalescents. On the
arrival the men win be met by hospital
trains and the Pullman company has
been directed to convert a number of
sleepers into hospital cars to carry them
to the army reconstruction hospitals,
base hospitals and other places already
provided.
Reports from General Pershing show
that American soldiers captured by Ger
many are returning to the American
lines from day to day, General March
a~A tbo aa,,a ~ ,,,sv,E hos rnoatsnd ,,n
report of mistreatment of them by the
enemy Most of the men are entering
the lines of the American army of occu-
patton, since that army holds the front
line.
The disposition to be made of German
or other enemy subjects interned in this
country, General March thought, would
be worked out at the peace conference.
The new casualty reports add more
than $4,000 names to the American total
for the war. The summary announced
last week totaled 233,ll7, including 2,l63
prisoners. General March said he did not
think the number of prisoners would be
increased materially by the new figures,
indicating the probable total to Nov. 26
will be $50.
To-day's summary adds 4,3l0 TO the
number killed in actionor died Of wounds,
1923 to the number dead of disease,
10, ,330 to the number wounded; and the
number of missing in action is increased
from l,l00 to l4200. The large increase
in the latter classification is attributed
to belated reports from all commands on
the ehecking-up Of missing men.
Troops from II states composed the
three divisions named by Gen. March as
designated for early return home, as they
originally were organized. The 10th in
cluded men from Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
Connecticut and northeastern New York,
Some changes in the composition of the
divisions may have been made, however,
without notice to the war department.
The 9th, mentioned as having been
withdrawn from the British forces, in-
cludes New York troops.