Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
18TH DIVISION
LOST 14,417 MEN
IN WARS BATTLES
Lon Division Leads Guard
and National Army in
Overseas Losses
100000 YANKS IN FIGHTS
Total Casualties, According TO
Revised Reports, Reach
240,197 Soldiers
RAINBOW HEROES 12,252
Figures Show 1,361,52S Dis
charged From Service to
Date, March Says
RAINBOW HEROES 12,252
By associated Press

Washington, March S.-American
troops actually participated in en-
gagements against the enemy num-
bered 100000 men. General March
announced the figures to-day, show
ing that 100000 comprised divis-
ional troops and divisional replace
ments; 100000 corps and army
troops, and $4,000 service or supply
troops.
Total Casualties 24O,197
Battle casualties of the American
army in France as shown by revised
divisional records announced to-day
by General March, totaled 24O,197.-
These included killed in action,
wounded. missing i'll action, and
prisoners. There probably will be
some slight further revision as final
reports are received.
The Second Regular Division
showed the greatest losses in the
revised list With 24.429. The First
Division came next with 23,973. The
2Sth (PennsylVania), led National
Guard and National Army divisions,
being fourth in the list with 14.417.
The send (Michigan and wisconsin,
was fifth with 14,26S.
Rainbow's Loss, f2,252
In the new list the 42nd Division
casualties of 1882, the 77th (New
4 York Metropolitan National Army,
s'9, ,423; the 26th (New England, s.
1885, the 18th (New York;. 7,940;
the goth (Tennessee, North Carolina,
South Carolina), 6,S93.
Demobilization reports made pub
lie to-day by General March show
ed 1861, ,52S officers and men dis
charged to date. while the number
ord ordered HSo released >s<Id reached l.
352,S3l Yanks H0hss
Up to March 3, departures of SOL
diers from France numbered 419, 555,
of whom 354, ,S24 had landed in the
United States up to yesterday.
Hospital records from the ex-
peditionary forces, General March
said, showed S1,231 patients on Feb
ruary 20, reduction from 1927
when the armistice was signed.
reduction in the number of
demobilized camps from thirty-three
TO twenty-three was announced to-
day, the purpose being to enable the
War Department to release thou
sands of men who, under the original
plan, would have been held at the
ten national camps as dem obiliZa-
tion personnel.
To Abandon 13 Camps
Thirteen of the original thirty
three camps designated as demobili-
Zation centers will be abandoned.
Three new camps, Fort Bliss, Ogle-
thorpe and ID. A. Russell, have been
added, bringing the total to twenty
three.
Army TO BE 509,909
General March announced to-day
mat the army would not be reduced
under any circumstances below the
figure mentioned in the reorganiza-
ton bill which failed in Congress,
total of 509,909 officers and men.
lie said this total would be main
tanned until some law was passed
providing for a permanent force
which would permit the military
necessities of the United States to
be handled"
The statement was made in con-
necton with the information that
General Pershing had been author
lZed to resume enlistments for the
Regular Army. Men now overseas
who desire to enlist in the regular
establishment. General March said,
VIII be accepted and assigned to
regular organizations in the ARMY
of Occupation, releasing other men
to be discharged.
The 10th Division
The battle casualties figures now
announced include in the totals
wounded, which were not included
in the tables of major casualties re-
Gently made public by the War De-
partment. In the list of divisional
totals the 29th (New Jersey, Della
ware, Virginia, Maryland, District OF
Columbia), stands nineteenth with
5,912; the S0th (Virginia, West Vir-
glnla, Western Pennsylvania), is
iwnntV-firGf with =
Pennsylvania, Eastern MARYLAND
District of Columbia), is twenty.
third. with 3,223.