Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
MORE COUNTY
TROOPS LAND
FROM FRANCE
Great Cheering as Soldiers De-
part for Camp Dix to Be
DemobiIized

-Four transports landing in the port
of New York Yesterday brought home
6,967 officers anu men from overseas
service in France, all bound for de-
mobilization camps. The number in
cluded many New Jersey men.
The first of the ships to make port
was the Pesare, formerly the old
Hamburg American liner MoEke,
which served as an Austrian hospital
ship throughout the war. She carried
1,407 officers and men, made up large
ly OF the 30Sth Field Artillery, witch
went abroad in May, 1918. and sup
ported the Goth division in the Meuse
Argonne sector. First Lieut., Arthur
ID. Drake, of Metuchen and Peter
Madsen, 235 Meade street. this city,
were aboard
The Giuseppe Verdi from Genoa,
which stopped at Marsciiles for trops.
brought back 1890 officers and men OF
the S07th Field Artillery, in-command
of Major Francis G. Baldwin. These
men were attached TO the 7Sth or
Lightning Division, and tlIay backed
up various infantry regiments of that
and other divisions on the st. Mihiel
and Argonne fronts. Included in the
roster of the 307th. We're:
John Stankiewicz. 105 Augusta
street, South Amboy: Jonn f. Wort
ley, of sol Bordentown avenue, South
Amboy; Corporal Alvin Briggs. Broad
way and Main street, South Amboy;
Alphonsus Bonner. Atlantic street,
Chrome; Pietro Bortono. 457h State
street, Perth Amboy; William Butter
line, 11s South Stevens avenue, South
Amboy; James H. Drake. 66s Middle
sex avenue, Metuchen; Archie Brunn-
cEaer. 252 Durham avenue. Metuchen;
Corporal Jens Jensen, Metuchen: John
z. Coughlin. 224 Main street. Wood
bridge; John Joncisko, Perth Amboy;
Luigi Baresciano. Chrome: Corporal
Noble Sheldon. Sewaren.
The Spanish liner p. de Satruste-
gui from Bordeaux brought home
1,462 officers and men. most of whom
were of the 325th Infantry, the per-
sonnel of which consists of south
western troops with New Jersey and
New York requirements.
The Calamares with 2,208 officers
and men which she took aboard at
st. Nazaire was the last of the fleet
to dock. Bombs and whistles fired
and footed along the New Jersey
shore from Bayonne to Hoboken gave
ponderous and prolonged assurance
that fighters from New Jersey were
home.
The recipients of this rousing well
come-the loudest the port has
known in months-were the 107th
Machine Gun Battalion, the 18th In
fantry. the 10Sth Artillery. Supply
company anu tHe oitn iHldHliy Dfi-
gade Headquarters, all in command
of Brigadier General LIE Roy s. Up
ton.
Fully three thousand persons gath
cred in Hoboken when the Calamares
docked, and the military guards of
the port of embarkation had trou-
blesome evening keeping them in
place.
Before being entrained for Camp
Merritt the New Jersey warriors were
greeted by Governor Edge and Mayor
Patrick F. Griffin of Hoboken.
Corporal Leonard Morgan, of 2s4
Hall avenue, whose letters, published
at various times in the EVENING
NEWS, have told a thrilling story of
headquarters company of the 113th
infaotry on the Calamares. He was
a telegraph and telephone operator.
When a NEWS man asked him If he
had ever been in danger from shell
fire. he smiled and said:
Have I? I'll say SO! Why. while
we were in Belleu Wood before the
Argonne the Huns tried to drown us
with every conceivable kind of shell
they had. They dropped $4,000 shells
in our territorv in twenty four hours,
and everyone of them had some sort
of gas in it. I once got dose Of
mustard gas, from which I have re-
covered"
Four long troop trains. loaded with
fighting men on their way to Camp
Dix for rehabilitation passed through
here yesterday afternoon and last
night. cheering. singing whistling and
shouting from the open windows OF
the cars.
James H. Burke, a nephew of Pat
rick ]. Burke, chief of police. mem
Der of Company e 308th Field Artil-
lery 10th Division which disembark-
ed at Hoboken yesterday. stopped off
in this city few hours yesterday af-
ternoon while on his way to Camp
Dix where the men are to be demob-
ilized. Burke visited his home on
Parker street and had time to see sew
eral of his friends before his leave
expired.
Relatives flock to Dix.
CAMP DIX, May 15.-Relatives of
the New Jersey and western New
York men In the 307th and 30Sth field
artillery regiment. which reached
camp last evening began to arrive
early today. 1t was expected there
would be hundreds of them in camp
all day The men of the two regi-
ments found themselves quartered in
the same barracks they occupied eigh-
teen months ago during the training
period.
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