The sun., 1919-03-07

! American regiment. being about 40 per
cent. Our men who have received deco
, rations from their own country and Brit
ain are numerous. found our boys
gentle natured In ordinary life but fierce
| In battle"
Frederick c. Howe, United States
Commissioner of immigration, who has
been In Paris two months. said the most
significant thing he noted was the al
most pathetic turning of the nations Of
! europe, except the Russians, toward
the United States for inspiration and
guidance. The women particularly looked
toward President Wilson to end the pos
sibility of war.
| Their main idea" said Mr.. Howe, "is
! that America wants to end all militarism.
found the Presidents pictures in the
most obscure places and the poorest
] localities. At first the diplomats OF
Europe did not like the idea of the
League OF Nations, for a peoples peace
was not their conception of what a peace
should be. That is changed now ! was
| two weeks in Germany, and although
that country IL In a very bad way, the
mark being worth only IL cents, the
! Germans. with fifty years of order behind
them. will find 1t hard to so the way of
| Russia II peace Is delayed much longer.
| however, there Is danger OF a revolution
in the southern part OF Germany"
! Wants Army Sent to Germany.
! Col. L. Mccarthy Little Of Newport.
r. L., who fought with the marines
| in the Spanish War and has
| been with them ever since has been
abroad on the staff OF Admiral Sims
| planning for the welfare Of the Ma
rines and bluejackets In Europe. also
| supervising the work of the chapla ms.
| He went into Germany with the marines
| and has views about the Germans. He
said: The way to restore order in
! Germany is TO send the army there.
Where the American Army is there are
| no uprisings."
| 1T was joy to command these ma
| chine gunners." said Major Whitney.
| The reason more were not decorated
is that it would have been necessary
to decorate the whole crowd They
jumped at the chance Of the most dan
| gerous service"
All the officers were eager to compli-
| rlent their commands. Col. Franklin
W. Ward Of the l0Sth Infantry said the
fact that only 1000 returned of the
5000 men who went over with the regi-
! ment spoke for itself Requirements
brought the number up to sixty-seven
officers and $685. men. who came back
Most OF the blows dealt the lo6th were
on the Hinuenburg line.
Sergt lie Roy Runyon Of the 1osth
home IS VERIFIED street, Brooklyn, told
his folks when he left home he would
bring back the Kaiser. He made good
to the extent of returning with a pic
ture OF the gentleman in his watch
case. Runyon said that he found among
| heap of British dead key ring be-
longing to Sergt. Edward Roam OF
Brooklyn. but that Roan's body was not
found and that no one knew what be-
came OF him.
Meets Sister in Midocean.
One afternoon in midocean a Red
Cross nurse and soldier of the
Twenty met while strollng on
the deck, and after one sharp look fell
into each others arms. The nurse was
Elsie C. Street: the soldier, her brother,
Allen V. Street. They live at 104 West
174th street Neither knew the other
was on the boat.
Only two battalions OF the 101th, the
old dandy Seventh, were on the Levia-
than. The others are due on Sunday
on the Nieuw Amsterdam, Major
Thomas G. Brady came back in COM
| mand OF the First Battalion. and Ma jor
Roland Tompkins of the Second Battal-
ion. Major Brady said that the old
Seventh had furnished more than Loco
officers for the A. Z. F. The regiment
lost 10 officers and 500 men and had
1900 casualties.
Brig. Gen. Charles 7. De Bevoise
commanding the forth Infantry In its
fighting. said the Knoll battle was the
hardest. He said also the mud at Bres'
was not so bad as in Flanders.
Major C. T. Williams of the American
Red Cross relief expedition to Russia
and Capt Wynand Pyle OF Detroit, Army
Medical Corps, told about the block
house warfare" of the allied and Ameri'
can troops in northern Russia. Major
Williams said he had travelled 1906
miles by sled since last December. The
American troops wero occupying tht
ma in points where fighting was occurring
or likely to occur with the Bolsheviki ant
were working heroically under tryins
conditions. In cooperation with tbs
army the Red Cross had established q
, 100 bed hospital for the Americans al
? Archangel and published a weekly paper
edited by Capt. Roger Lewis, for the
benefit of the men. The mission sem
pack sleds TO Isolated villages to save
the natives from starvation and supplied