The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-17
.LEvIATHAN
 LODGED MANY
 SUBMARINES Ty Cobb One of Passengers on the Erstwhile
 Vaterland.

New York. Dec. 17-Her decks and superstructure swarming with nearly 5000 veterans of Americas overseas service, the giant liner Ieviathan, which foiled five submarine attacks while transporting 150,OO soldiers and civilian auxiliaries to France, docked here today,
 The vessels speed saved her from torpedoes, according to officers who told for the first time of the former Vaterland's encounters with U-boats. The big ship was at close quarters with the foe only once, when a daring German commander brought his craft to the surface within shelling dis tance.
 "But we were doing 21 knots and Fritz 13," said one of the Levia- than's company, "and when our shells began to drop around him he sub merged"
 As the Leviathan came up the bay amid a din of sirens and whistles, most of her sick and wounded-14 officers and 1, ,421 men-were o. deck, some with crutches and canes, while her rails were lined with almost 5000 naval officers and men, veterans of the submarine patrol off the French and British coasts, and 2,500 soldiers, with some of their commanders, he- roes of the bitter fighting in the final | weeks of the war.
 The naval contingent, largest of any | which has returned home since the signing of the armistice, included men | from both fleet and aviation units which had fought U-boats and con- voyed merchant ships in and out of | Allied ports.
 Major General Barnett, head of the Marine Corps, returned from two and a half months spent in Paris and at | the front, enthusiastic over the record 1 of his fighters from Chateau Thierry l to the end of the war. He said the l Marines were wonderful and the only complaints were those of the wounded, denied a chance to get back | to the front.
 Most of them, I find, are worry
 ing for fear they will be of no further
 use to their country" said the general,
 'and I am going to put forth every
 effort to find places for these wounded
 Marines in the service, if they desire D In the Leviathan's sick bay the
 seriously wounded like their conva-
 lescent comrades largely from the
 27th and 30th Divisions, were loath to
 talk of their experiences.
 Among those of the 27th and S0th
 Divisions who came home bearing
 wounds of honor was Lieut.. R. P
 Buell. of New Milford, Conn. Ensign D. B. Murphy, naval aviator
 of Boston, said he had been stationed
 at Killingnolm, near Hull, England
 where the largest American seaplane base in England, equipped with A machines, was maintained.
 'The American naval aviators have
 done very good work" said Ensigr Murphy. Tn 1917, when the zep. pelin L-TO, the largest enemy dirigible then in existence, attacked Hull, the Americans drove it off and, subse
 quently, 1t was brown down by al 5 English flier at Yarmouth German air raiders dH con { derable damage tt Hull. Many persons were killed ant
 some places in the city were laid il ruins"
 Many of the returned American z wore decorations for bravery ant l brought battle trophies. , ny" Cobb, the Detroit Americani r outfelder, who has been in service al
 a captain in a chemical warfare sec l ton, was a passenger on the Levia 7 than.