The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-04
5000 MORE AERO
MEN HERE TO-DAY
Gales Delay the Lapland, Min
nekahda and the Orca
From England.
SOME WOUNDED ABOARD
Troops Will Go to Long Island
Camps for Thirty Days
Quarantine.
SOME WOUNDED ABOARD

etubbornly battling against Atlantic
r,nter weather, the transports lap
and. Minnekahda and orca. bringing
,sorly 5000 troops from aero train
,rr camps in England, were nearing
,or last night. Gales and heavy
ana. have made the voyage slow. The
,nr.e ships sailed two days before the
Mauritania, which arrived on Sun
low night. winked her farewell to the
Mersey.
Army officers were greatly disap-
nolnted over the failure OF the Lap
Aud to make port yesterday. but the
k.,t information they could get was
that the transport, which is leading
tho Minnekahda and the Orca, will
rive of Quarantine at 9 o'clock this
r,orning and will dock at the Chelsea
p,srs about "A. NJ. There are wounded
men aboard the incoming transports,
,,hough It Is understood their num-
her is not large. The Minnekahda
NAV not get in until tomorrow, but
The orea is due at p. NJ. to-day.
80 Days Quarantine vital.
The returning troops will be dis
embarked precisely as were the men
that arrived on the, Mauretania. Mill
AIRY discipline will not be relaxed in
he slightest, because OF the extreme
necessity of observing medical and
sanitary regulations. 1t will be i'm
possible. the army officers repeated
yesterday, to permit the troops to min
no
sent to rehabilitation camps for dis
Infection of clothing and for medical
examination. DR.. Royal S. Copeland,
Commissioner OF Health. Joined the
army officers yesterday in reiterating
that parades must not be held or other
ppportunity given for the troops to
come in contact with the public until
all medical precautions have been
aiken, DR.. Copeland warned against
the possibility of typhus or trench
fever epidemics IL precautions were
relaxed. They will not be. All army
authorities, from the Secretary OF War
down, have set themselves squarely
against parading and promiscuous
m!ngl!ng with relatives and friends.
When the three transports are tied
I'D at their piers the men will be trans
ported by ferryboats to Long Island
City and entrained for Long Island
camps-Camp Mills, Camp Upton and
Mitchell Field. They will be held in
camp for perhaps thirty days and then
will be released at the rate OF about
1000 a day. The military authorities
DO not take the attitude of discourage
ing public receptions. II the Mayors
Committee, the Red Cross units or any
other organizations wish to go down
the bay with bands or to serve, through
accredited agents, food and hot drinks
at the piers they will be welcome, but
that IS as far as anybody can go at
present. Later on, when Organs
Twenty Division returns home
New York will have its big chance to
whoop things up for her own fighting
men.
Hylan's Inaction, Criticised.
The depressing and saddening failure
Of the city officials and OF any organi-
5ation to make cheerful and happy the
homecoming OF the. wounded men
brought by the Northern Pacific on
Monday. while extraordinary atten-
tons were lavished on the passengers
Of the Mauritania, docking simultane-
ousiy, was the subject OF widespread
criticism yesterday. 1t was pointed out
that the Mayor might have been
thoughtful enough to send at least one
band down the bay to play the North
ern Paciic's wounded and sick up to
their Hoboken pier.
The three ships nearing port will
bring 6,073 officers and men, Of whom
the Lapland carries 233 officers, 1877
men and nurses; the Minnekahda, SO
officers and 2.043 men, and the Orca.
90 officers and 1,s47 men. The organi-
2stons arriving aboard these ships are
rs follows:
On the Minnekahda.
Second Aircraft Acceptance Parks, 20
cheers and 557 men.
Goth Aero Squadron. officers and
.ij men
2lHth Squadron, 3 officers, 129 men.
254th Squadron. 2 officers. 25S men.
Eighteenth Construction Company (air
@ryice). 8 officers, 242 men.
Nineteenth Construction Company, 7
Cheers, 23S men.
Fifteenth Construction Company. 8
officers, 22s men.
Ninety-second Aero Squadron, "a off,
GERS. pol men.
l77th Squadron, officers, $50 men.
:l0th Squadron. officers, 251 men.
s55d Squadron, 4 officers. 1923 men.
s39th Squadron. 8 officers. 80 men.
sosth Squadron, 3 officers. 1877 men.
Casual Medical Detachment, officers,
u enlisted men.
On the Lapland.
First Handley-Page training section,
l2s officers, 44e men.
SHty-ninth photo section. / oflcer, 30
men.
men.
seventy-nrut photo section, I oricer.
% men.
% men
men.
2S5th Aero Squadron. officers, I1s
men.
$3.50 Squadron. 2 officers. 1875 men.
.e1th Squadron. 2 officers. 1875 men.
sEOth squadron. Q officers, 1913 men.
sltth Squadron, Z officers, 1874 men.
SlSth Squadron officers, 100 men
sooth squadroA, officers, 12l men.
sl2th SquadroA 3 officers. 1913 men.
Ar Service c&suals, ~ officers.
mixed casualS. II officers. enlisted
man. former 1urse.
casual sick and wounded, officers
~ men not reoniirinR Bpocial attention