Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-05
War Department Refuses
to Approve Plans For
Demonstration.
TO BE SENT HOME
FROM CAMP MEADE
Units TO Be Dispatched Direct
to Homo mobilization Camps--Pa-
rades May Be Arranged For Men in
Various Cities--Divisicn TO Land Be-
fore End of Aprii-ArmieS OF Con-
trsI Powers impotent.

Washington. April 5.--The war de-
partment has decided definitely that
1t will oe impractcablc to parade tho
Forty second (Rainbow) division In
Washington as "a complete organiza-
tIon General March announced today.
General Pershing has been so advised.
The division will be brought back
to Camp Meade and subsequently
to its home camp for rehabilitation.
Regiments and smaller units will be
paraded in the principal cities OF their
home states If this can oc arranged.
The entire Eorty.secoud division
should be in this country before the
last OF April, General March said.
under the present plan. The Depart
ment is anxious. he added. that ths
country should see as much ns pos
sible OF this extraordinary unit.
The proposed parade of the seventy
seventh CNew York; division is still
a matter OF adjustment, the chief OF
stan said. but the department. Is not
disposed 10 hold the division together
to the prejudice of the general de-
moblltZatlon scheme.
Enemy Armies ln,potsnt.
Figures on the latest status of the
military forces in Europe. General
March announced today. show that the
armies of the central powers as now
organized constitute about 10 per cent
of their strength when the armistice
was signed. while the allied forces still
organized comprise IS per cen. CO .hei.
total strength of Nov. II.
Official dispatches show the axgrr-
gate strength OF the central powers
now as l.l25. 900 men, against their
combined strength in November laxt
of 7.638o00 men. The allied armie~
in November totaied ;13.s3s.00o. ot
which only 25 per cent have been dee
modified. ith
The German army estimated Off
cially at 100000 on Nov. H. has been
reduced 10 $4,000: the Bulgarian
| army has dropped from 100000 to tas.-
900: the Austrian from 100000 to
| about 100000 and the Turkish from
400. 900 to less than 10000
Demobilization of the American
army including incomplete reports TO
April 5. has reached a total OF 1.624 III.
of whom 9i.674 were officers, the war
department announced today. Total
troops ordered for demobilization are
l. 1885, 500.
The strength Of the American army
on April was estimated at a.055.T1S.
This represents, General March said
today, a rehabilitation of a per cent
OF the enlisted and As per cent Of tha
commissioned personel.
Hopes to Break Record
Sailings from France since Nov. !,
1918. General March said, number
62T.919. During the month of April to
date 10000 men have Embarked for
home. The chief or staff added that
| he was aiming for monthly return OF
| 40 900 men, gs against the maximum
! in shipments overseas of 100000. Hc
| said the rehabilitation machinery was
amply sufficient to take care of the
maximum number Of en- possible TO he
| returned from abroad.
Reserve commissions have been
made to 306,000 officers and applica-
| tlons have been received from 1901
| officers. Enlistment under the call
| for 10000 men for overseas duty to
date total less than 5000 men, Gem
| eral March pointed out that this repre-
sented only half months work since
| the enlistment machinery has been or"
ganled.