The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-27
SAXONIA HERE WITH
1905 WAR VICTIMS
Gallant Soldiers, Wounded or
Ill, Include Clergyman Who
Won ID. s. Cross.
SOME O'RYAN MEN ABOARD
Hospital Boats and Ambu-
lances Meet Liner and
Take off Sufferers.

For fear Manhattan had gone mad
over returning battle fleet and pa
fading sailors might think that the
utramarines unaided had won the
var, some soldiers came into town
yesterday from france. The soldiers,
numbering 80 officers and 1873 men,
I'll Of whom, men and officers, were
wounded or i'll, came home aboard the
Cunard liner Saxonia almost at the
same moment that the waterfront was
making big fuss over the arriving
sea fighters.
Although the Cunarder never mas
been officially rated as in hospital
service" she might have been mistaken
FOR hospital ship as she came
through the Narrows and up the
river yesterday forenoon. Every SOL
dier aboard had been sick or was still
sick and the rest of them had been
wounded.
There were officers and men from
the Twenty-seventh Division, histori-
Cally known as "ORyan's Rough
necks." Also there were many Ill or
injured fighters aboard who had re-
ceived their wounds or their illnesses
while fighting with the Thirtieth Dr.
vision. A great number Of the return
ing men had been under treatment in
Tottenham, Portsmouth, Dartmouth
and other English hospitals.
But more heart breaking than sick
ness or wounds was, so the Saxonia'
olive drab cargo thought, the fact
that they had not got home on Christ
mas Day. The SaXonia left Liver
pool on December IL, her skipper
feeling sure then that he would bring
his load OF soldiers within sight OF
the skyscrapers by Christmas Day:
but heavy seas and fogs caused q
slowing down Of the engines. with the
result that the SaXonia passed
through the Narrows yesterday a day
overdue.
Consequently there was deep gloom,
almost as thick as the morning
weather OF yesterday. all over the ship
until suddenly the SaXonia's boys
found themselves amid the banging
guns and all the whoops and hollers
and whistle blowings and high jinks
generally which greeted the arrival OF
the big fleet of warships. They
crowded the Cunarder's rails and rig
ging. did the sick and wounded, once
the uproar had begun and soon for.
rot. amid the hurrah of excitement
their own far spreading personal sor.
lows.
The olive drab lads cheered the
sailors aboard the arriving battle
ships. The sailors cheered the sol
,liers aboard the Saxonia. Soldier!
and sailors cheered each other ST
simultaneously and thereafter every one
was happy, even the beiridden sol
der boys aboard the Cunarder, wht
could not come out upon the snow!
decks to whoop things up but VIII,
were heartened by the near noises o
Eladness coming to their ears as the!
lay on their cots Indoors"
Heroic Preacher wounded.
Among the wounded was the one
time rector of an Episcopal church
at Saginaw. Mich. Chaplain Thoma.
Swami of the 125th Infantry, who re
Ceived the Distinguished Service Cross
Tor extraordinary heroism" during
the fighting on the Marine and tn,
Vesle rivers last summer. Also H.
rad been gassed, at Fismes, OF
August 3.
There was Major Chester King o
Syracuse. who while fighting with hi
105th Machine Gun Battalion wa
wounded in the spine, one result O
the injury being that Major King nov
has an impeachment in his speech. An
other officer aboard. Capt. Henry Ad
sit, who was leading physician o
Buffalo until the call to arms came
was wounded fourteen times Will
serving with the machine gun com
pany OF the 107th Infantry, the "Ol
Seventh"
Hospital boats OF small size an
many ambulances met the ship whe
Fhe locked near the foot OF Yves
Fifteenth street. The hospital boat
took hundreds Of the wounded to hos
pitfalls that could best be reached by
water route, the ambulances takin
the rest OF the sick and injured I
hospitals that could be more easil
reached along land routes.