The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
Thirty-Fifth Division From
Doniphan Finishes Training.
Troops Under General Wright
Leave British Units.
5 DIVISIONS BACK TO PERSHING
After Being Brigaded With
English at Front.
First Shipment of Troops Land
ed i'm Italy Yesterday.

Washington, June 29.-The Thirty
fifth Division from Camp Doniphan
has completed it's period of brigading
with British troops and has been re-
turned to General Pershing's COM
mand. ready for active service, Cen
eraI March, chief of staff, announced
today
The first American troops landed in
Italy yesterday. These are not the
force sent by General Pershing but
consisted of units shipped from this
coun:"y.
Mostly Auxiliary Troops.
The troops consist largely of sani-
tary units but include other special
organizations, General, March ex-
planned. On the whole, however, it is
made up mostly of non-combatant
units The combatant troops will be
sen; by General Pershing as previous
ly announced.
General March had no announce
ment to make today as to the total
nu,naer of troops shipped from this
country TO France. Formal announce
ment. he said, would be made later.
situation Favorable to Allies.
Surveying the entire battle front,
General March said the situation could
be said to be extremely favorable to
the allies.
tie would make no comment upon
the indications of an impending Ger
man attack.
Includes X N. G. Units.
The organization includes all ma
tional guard organizations from Kan
sas except the ammunition train under
Lieut.. Col. Frank l.. Travis and the
medical corps under Captain Lerrigo.
Nine thousand KanSans are in the va
rious units of the Thir, ,y-fifth division,
according to information in the office
Of Oh lrles S. Huffman. adjutart gen.
eral.
Uniis of the division include the
Third infantry, organized in Kansas
a short time before the United States
entered the war. the 10th brigade in
fantry. practically complete Kansas
organizations of the Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth regiments. the 10 sanitary
train, the 10 ammunition train and
the 40 signal battalion. The Sixty
ninth regiment of the division is an
all Missouri organization.
Topeka Men With 35th.
Members of the national guard units
from Topeka, including the regiment
al band and Battery a, are with the
Thirty-fifth division The ammuni-
tion train under command of Lieu
tenant Colonel Travis arrived in
Frauce last fall and has for some time
been IN active service Nearly 1000
Kansans are in the ammunition train,
which was for several weeks encamped
at the state fair 81 ounds in Topeka.
Troops Land in Italy
Continuing his statement General
March announced that the first ma =
tional army division has taken up a
sector at the front. 1t is the Seventy
seventh raised in New York, trained
at Camp Upton, and originally COM
manded by Maj. Gen. ]. Franklin Bell.
IL was taken across under Major Cen
eral Johnson.
Kansas Troops Complete Training.
Five American divisions which had
been brigaded with the British for
training have been returned to Gen
eral Pershing's command with train
ing completed. One of these is the
Thirty-fifth division. composed of
manded by Mai. Gen. William NJ.
Wright when 1t left the United States.
Italians Took Only $4,000.
General March disclosed that the
official reports from the Italian front
place the number of Austrians cap
tured at $4,000 and a large amount of
war material
The line of the Piave has been en-
tirely restored by the Italians and in
some places has been slightly ad-
vanced
Austrian Attack Too Wide.
Military opinion. General March
said, found the Austrian attack faulty,
because it was spread over so large a
front as to make it impossible to car
ry thru successfully
The Austrian disaster which follow
ed is valuable to the allies not only
in a military sense but psychologically,
the chief of staff said, because of its
stimulating effect upon Italian morale.
both among the civil population and
the army.
The practical result in prisoners and
guns taken also was of course valua-
BILE During the last week American
activities in France have been local
In character but official reports show
the Americans at all times and places
1--WE more than held their own, March