The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-04

Washington, Dec. 3.-(SpeciaI)-
The best information obtainanle ~
to Chickamauga park Is that u wih
probably be used as one OF the points
of rehabilitation of combat divisionh
Gen. March stated before the senAtS
military affairs committee today ina!
the divisions which saw service ~
the front will be kept intact unth
rehabilitation and would be mus.
tered out at camps convenient
their units. other divisions VIII mol
be held together but will be separ.
ated into state units and mustereoi
out as most convenient.
Chickamauga will likely secure
either the 30th division, composed 81
guard troops from Tennessees tne
Carolinas and District of Columbia
MS the send, composed OF selectmeL'
from Tennessee, Alabama ana 0eox.
gia, both are combat divisions witr
records to be proud of. Gen. MArcE
is understood to be very favorabi<.
TO Chickamauga and the only Ques-
tion is as to space there at TINA -
rehabilitation.
Senator Hoke Smith Is movine
heaven and earth to make CamE
Gordon the only large southern camp
except Columbus, Ga, where somt
additional land was recently pur-
chased by the government Most ~
the army officers here say that lu
addition To. tia. A.rnlx neYr <can&oUnI
merit camps the old single fe1dmcn<
and brigade posts will also be re-
,uired. as hundreds OF thousands o.
men are brought back from Europe
monthly. This will more certainly DC
the case as the tented camps have
been abandoned. The excellent quar-
ters for officers at the old camps also
make them preferable for the muster
out, and for permanent posts Tor
the permanent regular army which
according to plans here, Will be from
100000 to 100000 men. ".
Nothing definite is known rs 20
plans of the medical officers camp,
but the belief is expressed In army
circles here that it will remain o.
good proportions until next April Al
least, and may be maintained per-
manently in some form. II
Washington, Dec. IA. P.)-
Thirty camps were designated by tn
war department today as demobili-
Zation centers to which enlisted me.
are to be transferred for dischnrE@
from the army.
The camps include: BeaureCard,
La; Gordon, Ga; Hancock. Ca;
Lee, Va; Greenleaf, Ga; Seviers g.
c.; Shelby, Miss; Pike, Ark; Greene,
N. c.; Wadsworth, 5. c.: Jackson,
S. c.; Humphreys, Va; Mcclellan
Ala, and Sheridan, Ala.
Commanding officers are instructed
to discharge enlisted men only when
such men are within $50 miles OF
the point Of their entrance into the
military SERVICE" otherwise to trans
fer the men to another camp nearer
the point Of induction. All other en-
listed men specified for discharge
will be formed in detachments con-
sisting of men from the same state
and will be sent for discharge to
the camps in or nearest the S.ato
from which they came. TX
To Hasten Discharge. sai
A proper proportion of officers,
preferably from the same locality,
will be sent with each detachment.
Officers in command of the thirty
camps are authorized to discharge oil
men sent from under today's orders,
who on examination are found eligt-
BILE for discharge under previous gem
eral instructions. They are instructed
to expedite in every possible way
such discharge. se ~,
The men transferred to a camp ~
immediate discharge who are found
to be ineligible for discharge by TaGss
son Of physical disability, will be ~
signed to development battaliou
and discharged from the service ~
soon as they become eligible, Hen
sent to the camps are not "a b
placed on guard duty nor, on any
other duty which will delay their
separation from the SERVICES excSe1
in an emergency.