The daily banner., 1919-08-26

Despite HandiCapS OF Distance, IN
Guiding Bringing Men Erom ST.
IBERIA And France, Men In Army !
Have Been Demobilized More Rap
ldly Than III The spahish-AmerI-
can or Civil Wars-AncIica Sets j
Pace For The World. i
Washington. y. c., Aug. 25.-Tho
rehabilitation Of our army TO date
was declared one of the greatest ac-
compiishments of the war by Secre-
tary Baker today in a statement
pointing out the comparison between
the figures in this war and those or
'98 and '65. The Secretary laid par
ticular emphasis upon the great
record of transportation achieved in
returning the men from France.
THE rehabilitation record to
date is one of the most splendid sue
cesses OF the war;" said the Secre-
tary 1T ranks favorably with the
greatest achievements of the war. In
one month alone we brought home
more than a third of a million men,
this with little help from the Brit
ish and French shipping that had
largely been withdrawn at that time.
The British and French took more
than fifty per cent. of our men over
seas, but almost single-handed we
brought back as many as 364,OOO
men in the month of June, more
men than were ever transported oY-
erseas in a single month.
Dem mobilization during the pres
ent war has far eclipsed the work
either OF the Civil or the Spanish
Wars. TO date we have brought
back from overseas more than l.
l8SS,O0O men. We have demobiliz-
ed all but about 100000 of our four
million men.
I'm one month after the signing
of the armistice we had demobilized
351,2O6 men and 16, 600 officers. III
1898 it took ten months to muster
out 197,397 of the 216,256 officers
and men serving when the American
forces in that war was at its peak.
Certain units were demobillzed from
the Philippines even later than that
In the Civil War the strength OF the
volunteer army was 1,034,064 Whep
demobilization BEGAN. 1t took from
May 1, 1865, to November 1, 1866.
or eighteen months, to muster out
this force. In approximately TWO
and a half months after the armls-
tice we had mustered out l,O23,8S4
men and $4,000 officers, thus more
than equalling the eighteen month
record of the Civil War.
'"The movement homeWard and
demobilization of troops began al
most contemporaneously with the
signing of the armistice. At the
time the President, going abroad III
March, ordered rapid demob1l1za-
ton, the first processes were well
under way and from that tirne on we
carried out a program OF demoolll-
Zation that is almost astounding un-
der circumstances of transportation
and other difficulties that had to be
overcome.
: ''There are at present approx
mately $4,000 emergency troops to
be discharged. There are less than
100000 men now in Europe and un-
der present plans there will be less
than $4,000 men in France on Sep
tember 1st. There are already more
than a hundred thousand new en-
listments and about $4,000 new en-
listments are needed to bring the
enlisted quota of the army up to the
authorized 225,000 strength"
Further figures on enl1stments IN
the regular army show that 21,671
of the men newly enlisted have ex-
pressed their preferences as regards
places of service. OF these, 12,754
have expressed desire to serve In
Europe. Among the branches OF
service preferences given 81, 344
want to serve in the infantry, while
11,878 express a preference for
cavalry.
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Coles Hot Blast ranges, the
best by test. Herbert Hearn HdW.
Co.-Adv.