The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-12
SEVEN SHIPS CARRIED AN
 AVERAGE OF 1000 MEN EACH
Many of Those Returning Left Amer ica Scarcely More Than Boys, But They Came Back as Men Either Wounded or Sound-Many Trophies of the War Were Brought Back.

New York, Dec 11.-Weleomed as heroic sons o5 the nation, 7740 more soldiers, sailors, marines and avia tors, repesentinl virtually every state in the union entered log-bouna New York harbor today on six large transports from European ports.
 The tales these men told about one another were narrations of American high courage on French Gattlefields, on the open seas and in the air above France and England,
 Hundreds of the men, maimed for life, by wounds received in some of the wars heaviest fighting, were hur- rled to hospitals, and the others were sent to camps, where they will te demObolized
 Some had left America scarcely more than boys, but they came back as men, either wounded CT sound, The wounded included soldiers who had walked with crutches when their ships sailed from Europe, and who, made exultant 1y their home com ing, tossed their props aside and de- clared themselves cured as if 5y the miracle of their return
 Here vas man witL jaw shot away-and happy in his expectation of rejoining his wife and children.
 There was a man with Do,h feet gone, amputated 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, regard less of the cost to himself
 Other men had met with differ erent misfortune; these were unable tod iscern the torch which the Statue of Liberty held high above the busy harbor and moving troops
 And there were others who could not hear the port whistles and the air raid sirens which shreked their welcoming demonstration Many of these men had eaten their Thanks giying dinners on shipbOard and were glad they were hCmo in time to have their Christmas diners Il their homes.
 All who returned today were not in military or naval service as actual fighters. There were Y. w. C. A. girls who mad suffered from gas pois- oning; Y NJ. C. A. workers who had streuethened soldiers morale while under fire, and chaplams who had risked their lives and aided Amer jean contingents in destroyn9 German machine gun nests.
 or these stories without number were told by troops who themselves had survived the wars dangers and spoke modestly of that fac'
 Illustrative of Yakee n7roism was the account given of Captain C. r. Gla2ebrook of Washington, D. C.. q member Of the 120Jh field artillery.
 Shot in the lung, gassed wounded in the leg, removed to a hospital. Captain Glakebrook, arrivals said, stole away from his cot. assembled a uniform, attached a captains bars. climbed through a window rode 36 hours on an army truck without let ting his companions know of his con dition, and entered acion i'm the American advance on the St. Mihiel salient.
 Four days later, once more sassed, he was back in the same hospital
 Asked about this incident, Captain Glazcbrcok said:
 "The chief surgeon gave me hell If you don't die he said, and you probably will, you will be court martialed. but outside the door heard him laugh and I knew it was all rieht
 Behind the crosses of the war which man. of the returned soldiers wore. gifts of tho French government, lie incidents of douehboy grit and sacrifice which parallel the inored- ible and the telling of which would fH pages of newspapers,
 < me Of the soldiers and marines lescribed their mistrust for the Ger hans who cried "kamerdd" and who