The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-12
us. SOLDIERS IN
SIX TRANSPORTS
LAND At GOTHAM
Men to the Number of
7,740 Welcomed in New
YOTk-Many Wounded Are
Hurried to Hospitals.

NEW YORK, Nee. Welcomed
home rs heroic sons of the nation.
f,t4O more soldiers, sailors. marines and
~aviators, representing virtually every
state he union, entered ~Iog-bound
New York harbor yesterday on six
large transports from European ports
The tales these men told about one
knother were variations OF American
high courage on French battefields, ON
he open seas and IN the air above
France and England hundreds of the
men, manned for life by the wounds
fighting, were hurried 70 hospitals and
Inc Others were sent to camps, where
they will he demobilized.
some had left America as scarcely
more than boys, but they came back
as men, either wounded or sound The
wounded included soldiers who had
walked with clutches when their ships
sailed from Europe. and who, made
oxultant by their homecoming, tossed
their props aside and declared them
selves cured as by the miracle OF
their return.
Here vas a man with a jaw shot
sWay-aud happy In his expectation OF
%rejotning his wife children. There
was a man with both feet gone, am
putated by surgeons after the bones
had been splintered by German shells
IN the bloody Argonne forest, but glad,
he said, that he had served country
and flag regardless of the cost to him
self, Other men had met with a diff
terent misfortune; these were unable
to discern tho torch which tina goddess
Of liberty held high ABOVE the busy
harbor and moving troops And there
were others who could not hear the
ports Whistles and the air raid sirens
which shriekcd their welcoming dem
on%stration. Many Of these men had
eaten their Thanksgiving dinners on
shipboard and were glad they were
home in time to have their Christmas
dinners in their homes.
All who returned were not In mill
tary or naval service as actual fighters,
There were Y. W. c. A. girls who had
suffered from gas poisoning; Y. Nj G..
4. workers who had strengthened sol.
dters' morale while under fire, and
Chaplaius who had risked their lives
and aided American ~contingents in de
stroNiug German machine gun nests.
or these, stories without number were
told by troops who themselves had sur
vived the wars dangers and spoke
modestly Of that fact.
Illustrative OF Yankee heroism was
the account given of Capt. G. T. Glaze
brook, of Washington, u. G, a mem
Der Of the 18th field artillery Shot
In the lung, gassed, wounded in the
leg, removed to a hospital Capt, Glaze
brook, arrivals said, stole away from
his cot, assembled Il uniform, attached
a captains bars, climbed through a
| window, rode 80 hours on an army
truck without letting his companions
know of his condition, ana entered aC-
ton In tho American adVaQCe on the
St Mihiel salient. Four days later.
once more gassed. he was back in the
same hospital.
Asked about this incident, Capt.
| GlagebrOok said.
THE chief surgeon gave me hell.
IF you don't die be said, and you
| probably viii, YOU VIII be Court-mar-
tailed. But outside the door | heard
him laugh and knew II vas all right =
Behind the crosses OF war which
many Of tho returned soldiers wore
gifts Of the French goveTnmcut-lie
incidents Of doughhoy grit and saCri-
| flee which parallel the incredible and
| the telling Of which would FIN pages Of
newspapers. Some of the soldiers and
marines described their mistrust for the
| Germans who cried "Kamcrad," and
| who were killed in .tnelr tracks after
| t%reacherous activities. Sailors spun
| yarns Of battles with submarines. Avi-
| Ators explained how they tempered
their disappointment at not reaching
| France BY bringing down encny air
| planes during raids on England
Trophies Of war came home on the
| transports, the Adriatic and Ascanius,
| CBritish) and tho T%cnadores, Kroon-
landa Calamares, and the hospital ship
Mercy (American.) There were Ger
man helmets, German machine guns
| and German belts with the unfulfilled
"Gott Nit Uns" caption,