Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-11
693,SS9 OF OUR
MEN DISCHARGED
American Demobilization
Twice as Rapid as Brit
aims. Gen. March Says
SIN MORE SHIPS SAIL
LEON ROBERTS,
Killed


By the 1SS0Cidtcd Press
. Washington, Jan. 11,-Demobilization
Of the American army, General March,
chief Of staff, said today, is proceeding
at a rate which comparative figures
show to be more than twice as rast as
the British rehabilitation. Actual fig
ures up to January 10 OF men discharged
from the American army showed total
Of G93SS9
British discharges TO January : num-
bered 35265s. American officers TO the
number of lr,O2s have been returned
to civil life. while on January :, the
British had discharged only 1898 officers.
American troops scheduled for de'
mobilization now number ll5l,9oo, IN
GLIDING 10000 men who actually nave
returned from overseas, but not includ-
ing units designated for return or on
their way home.
General March made public a ,crort
from the American military attache at
Archangel on operations in northern
Russia during December and the early
dayso fthe month. indicating that the
situation was regarded as satisfactory
both from military and sanitary stand
points.
The chief Of staff said he had no con-
frmatlon Of reports that British forces
we're being Withdrawn from the Arch-
angel sector,
Six More ships Bound Home
Sailing of five transports and the
hospital ship Mercy from france WIN
approximately 5000 officers and men was
a WAR lDgnarf-
lacnt. They VIII arrive at New YORK
as follows:
Pueblo and Wilhclmina, January IL;
flampden and General Goethals, January
Il Ice King, January "a, and the Mercy
January 20.
The General Gocthals carries two di-
visional training cadreS or skeleton or
ganizaliOns. There are eight officers ana
eiGhty-four men from the Divisional
Headquarters and TRAM. StAtT-scNenth
and Sixty-eighth Infantry BriSades,
125th, l26th. 12Tth Machine Gun Bat
talions, l33d 134th. l35th, l36th In
fsntry Regiments 1O9th Infantry Train
Headquarters and the military police
OF the Thirty-fourth Division. assigned
to Camp Grant for dcmobilzation. troul
the Eighty-fOurth there are twenty
seven officers and 2SS men from di-
ySiOnal headquarters, 3O9th Headquar-
t,rs Detachment and Train, 325th, 326th,
3g7th Machine Gun BattaliOns, 333d,
334th. 335th, 336th Infantry Regiments,
3G9th Sanitary Train and Headquarters,
Field Hospitals 334 and 336 and Ambu-
lance Companies G3i and 33t, assigned
to camp Taylor,
The General Zoe thals also carries the
3llth sanitary train, 10 officers and i39
men going to Camp Grant, the units in
- but "a
342 and 342 and field hospitals 34l, 34g
and 3i4 four casual companies, No. II,
composed of two officers and fourteen
men from New York. and Nos. II, IL
rnd "a, for Kansas, New York and
Maryland, respectively, and detach.
ment of casual officers and some sick
ana wounded are in the ships passenger
list.
widely Scattered Units
on the pueblo are six casual compa'
nics, two officers and $50 men each, and
Nftcrn officers and COZ men in head
quarters and companies \. Il, and !
of the Gfty-third ammunition train. The
casual companies are Nos. il5, composed
Of New Workers; ilG, Washngtonians
42!; AL and 436 Ohioans; i22, Mary
landers, and i26, Texans,
The Ice King carries TWO ar service
officers
The lIampden carries casua. company
40. =. South Dakota and a few sicl
and wounded.
The Wuhelmnia Is bringing detach
nleuis from sanitary train No. 100 Of tn
TE.rty-fo fourth Division, including iel'
hospitals 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1856 and tn
corresponding ambulance companies
routed to Camp Grant, and anothe
Cadre from the Eighty-siNtn Division
composed Of two ocers and siXty-nin
men from the 32lst, 322d, 3S5d and 334t
Machine-Gun Battalions and the 3ils'
34ad. 3f3d and 334th Infantry, likewis
assigned TO Camp Grant lieadquarter
l59th Field Artillery. ten officers an
: sixty-one men, ordered TO Camp Taylor
combplcte the Wilhelnina's list.
ON board the Mercy are 400 sick an
! wounded 10 be sent t" various hosp
tails