Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — 120,278 MEN ON WAY HOME [ARTICLE]

120,278 MEN ON WAY HOME

Washington, April 23. —On April 21, an official announcement by the war department today said, 120,278 men from the army overseas were at sea enroute to this country. A total of 731,889 men had been landed in this country up to and including that date. Since the signing of the armistice the war department has turned back to the shipping board 302 vessels with an aggregate dead welgnt of 2,000,000 tons.