The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 24, 1918, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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1 REACH DEMOBILIZATION
RATE OF 30,000 PER DAI
Total Demobilization on Dec. II
Hiul Itcmliiil Officers
1H8,.*>(I2 Mart-It Deports.
Washington. Doc. 23.?Domobilt
cation of tho homo military forcos a
the rate of 30,<H?0 a day. tho goal so
less than a month ago by the \va
department, has boon reached, if no
exceeded.
General March, chief of staff, an
v nouneed that demobilization at th
homo camps during tho seven-da;
period ending December 14. was a
an average of 1*7.<>00 a day nlthoupl
no men were discharged from mos
of the camps on Sunday.
Total demobilization on Peceinbe
14. had reached 20.003 officers am
188.56 2 men. The chief of staf
?aid more than 000.000 men hav<
been assigned for early demobiliza
tion, including 21.000 divislona
troops. 43.000 engineers afld 16,
000 men of the military aeronautics
division.
General March made a report fronGeneral
Pershing saving that on Pe
cember 15. a total of 3.210 Ameri
can officers and men, taken prison
era by the enemy, had been releasee]
and that only a few Americans in Is
olated camps remained prisoners.
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DEFINITE PEACE PLANS
NOT SHAPING RAPIDLY
President Takes \dvnntuge of Delay
to Assess Public Opinion
in France.
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Paris, Pec. 2:?. Definite plans for
the peace conference are not shaping
as rapidly as some of the American
commissioners expected. Meanwhile
President Wilson is taking advantage
of the opportunity to assess
public opinion in France, an 1
incidentally in Great Britain. His
advisers say that lie is entirely satisfied
that these peoples aie largely
in accord with the principles he has
announced as necessary to a durable
pence.
The members of the American
mission are employing their time before
the peare delegates from the
various countries actually assemble,
in a series of informal conferences,
j which eventually will include it reI
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The feeling among all the entente
conferences Is that the making ol
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of neutral countries will assist in
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She lias on Hoard the lIKtli Field
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Hast Night.
"j Norfolk. Vn., Dec. 23.?The army
! transport Martha Wshington, bringing
homo the 118th Held artillery,
passed Cape Henry, a mile off shore,
Itonight at 7:30 and should arrive in
Newport News before midnight.
The residents and soldiers at the
! capo fort were brought to the beach
by a mighty shout, which was followed
by cheering for a quarter of
an hour as the transport passed the
Capo Henry lighthouse. the men
giving way to their joy on beholding
the steady rays of the great light
that meant they were within a few
hours' ride of American soil.
"It was the mighty roar of delighted
men," the Cape Henry observer
reported by telephone to the
Associated Press correspondent.
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the Martha Washington,
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licitisli Foreign Office Denies ,Tlmt
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Mr. Wilson (inw Especially to
Discuss Russian Affairs.
London. Dec. '2:1.?King George has
invited President Wilson and Mrs.' I
Wilson to be his euests at Btieklnsr-1 !
ham palace during: their Rtay in Lon- J
don, but no reply has yet been r<* j
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ter will be deferred to the Preai-I
dent's personal wishes.
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by the British foreign office that
the report printed by the Manchester
Guardian that the President was
coming especially to discuss the
Russian situation, is inaccurate.
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one of courtesy and not polit'cal, al |
thoueh naturally discussion <>f ttns. I
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