The sun., 1919-03-20
nth DIVISION WILL
REACH HOME IN MAY
Pcrshing Says None Of Metro
politan Men Can Start
Before April "a.
RAINBOws WILL PRECEDE
With the New England Divi.
sion They Will Begin En-
barking March %.

WAsHfNoroN, March 1s.-0en. Per-
shing informed the War Department
to-day that It would not be possible to
start home the seventy-seventh New
York National Army Division osfors
April ~ unless German shipping became
available sooner than was anticipated at
present. Gen. Pershins also advised that
the Forty-second (Rainbow) and the
Twenty-sixth New England National
Guard) divisions would sail from Brest
between March ~ and April 10. Tie
Rainbow Division will land at New York
and the New England division at Boston.
Gen. Pershing did not indicate whether
tho Forty-second or the Twenty-sixth
Division would be started homo first.
Tho former Ia at Ahrweiler. Germany,
with tho Army of Occupation, while the
New England troops are at Montigny-le-
Roi. France The Seventy-seventh Divi-
sion Is at Chateau William. France. Plans
for the reception of the Rainbow and
New England divisions In this country
have not been announced, but the Forty
second, which Is composed Of Guards
men from twenty-eight States. probably
will 80 to one of the camps around
New York and the Twenty-sixth to
Camp Devens. Massachusetts,.
The New England division will parade
in Boston before being demolished and
the Forty-second may appear in New
will arrive home while the Victory Loan
campaign 10 in progress and Secretary
Glass Is anxious that II should partici-
pate. This division took part in the
three great battles in which the Amer
lean army fought-the Aisne-Marne
counter offensive, which drove the Ger
mans beyond the Vesle; St. Mihiel and
the Arsonne.
Ntnety-hrst Coming Soon.
First plans were to send tho Rainbow
unit home from antwerp. but these were
abandoned because Of the danger from
German mines in the waters of the
Dutch and Belgian coasts. Later it was
said that the division probably would
embark at st. Nazaire.
Assignment of practically all units of
the Ninety-first Division and several
organizations OF the Fifth Army Corps
for early convoy was announced to-day
by the War Department. The Ninety
first Division Is composed OF drafted men
from Washington, Oregon, California,
Alaska. Idaho. Nevada, Montana, Wyo-
ming and Utah.
Units OF the Ninety-frst Division as
signed include Division Headquarters
and Division Headquarters Troop. 1s1st
and 1924 Infantry Brigade Headquar-
tiers, 361st, 3e2d. $3.50 and 364th In
fantry regiments, the S46th. saith and
34sth Machine gun battalions. 316th En-
gineers and Train. 316th Field Signal
Ilntf a1t vtav
316th Ammunition Train, less Companies
B and d: 316th Supply Train. 3l6th
Sanitary Train, 816th Mobile Ordnance
Repair Shop and Ninety-first Military
Police Company.
Organizations Of the Fifth Corps as
signed to convoy include Headquarters
and Headquarters Troops 406th Tele-
graph Battalion, Fifty-second Pioneer
Infantry. Fifth Corps Sanitary Train.
Headquarters Field Hospital and Am
bulance Section. Field Hospitals Nos.
335, 33s and $40, Ambulance Companies
Nos 335. 33s and $50.
= Other units assigned for early con-
voy include Base Hospitals Nos. 4.i5. 10
and los, Air Service Casual Company
No. 6 and Medical Detachment, Sani-
tary Squads Nos. ~ and 4s and Cloth
ing Squad No. 3ol.
uore AEtliieTy h1siBheus
The Fifty-seventh Field Artillery
Brigade will return to the United States
with the Thirty-seventh Division, Gen.
Pershing cabled the War Department to-
day. The 147th Regiment Field Artll-
lery. originally with the Forty Divi-
sion, also will return with the Thirty
second, These units had been serving
with other organizations.
Troops returning from France during
the week ended March II numbered &c.
asa, the largest total for any week since
the armistice was signed. Figures made
public to-day by the War Department
showed that up to March ~ S14,27s men
had been brought home.
OF the 1ss,43+ officers Of the army on
duty when the armistlos was signed S3,-
400 had been discharged up TO March IS.
A War Department announcement to-
day showed that Of these 26.499 were
infantry officers, 1850 medical officers.
12,449 aircraft officers and 1873 field
artillery officers. Discharges from the
Ordnance and Quartermasters Corps
totalled 7.144. One hundred and twelve
officers of the Judge Acknowledgement s
Department and Cos chaplains also had
been discharged.