Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — FULL COUNT IS GIVEN OUT [ARTICLE]

FULL COUNT IS GIVEN OUT

PERSHING IS AUTHORIZED TO SEND BACK MEN NOT NEED. ED FOR OCCUPATION. '* ■ . /' ■■■ Total 'casualties in the American expeditionary forces up to the signing of the armistice, General March announced Saturday, were divided as follows: i Killed and died of wounds, 36,154. Died .of disease, 14,811. . Died from other causes, 2,204. ' Wounded, 179,625. Prisoners, 2,163. Missing, 1,160. > Discussing the enormous number of Wounded recorded in the total casualties announced by General March, officials said this included many thousafrds of men slightly hurt who did not go to hospitals And whose names never had been reported. Casualties reported to the department up to Friday numbered only a little over 82,000 and most estmateS of the probable total when the armistice. .was signed have not been over 100,000. Long lists are coming in daily now, however, and the total exclusive of the very slightly wounded may go far above previous estimates. General March also announced that authority had been given to General Pershing to send 'back home all such troops as will not be needed, in making up the army of occupation. . He said that General Pershing had indicated that the following units would not be so required: Divisions 31, 34, 38, 39, 76, 84, 86 (Chicago and northern Illinois), 87. Coast artillery regiments 46, 47, 49, 50, 75 and 76. Field artillery brigades 65 and 103.

General Van Rensselaer Chapter of the D. A. R. will meet with Mrs. E. P. Honan Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 26, at 2:30.