Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-09
TROOP SHIPS SAIL FROM EUROPE WITH
 HOMiNG SOLDIERS


 hospital ship Comfort have sailed from France for New York with 2S4 officers and 7419 men.
 Other units named in today's list are the S9th aero squadron and med 1 ical detachment; 11th and 12th bat talion headquarters and 4th, 18th, Both. Beth, 31th, 32nd. 23rd, thirty fourth companies, all of the goth en- gineers; 61st field artillery brigade headquarters, 321st field battalion signal corps; ordnance casual con- pany No. g; quartermaster casual companies Nos. 1 and ?; base hospit- al No. IS; 34th, 35th. 36th, 72nd, [ 76th, 717tn, 18th, 18th, S0th and S1st evacuation ambulance companies. The President Grant is due Janu- ary 16 with the second field artil- lery, S3rd field artillery, keadquart- 1 CTS detachment Sth field artillery brigade, company H, 347th infantry, 1 l14tt trench mortar battery, 69 cas- ! ual officers and about 250 sick and WoN3jded
 The Battlaship Montana, due Jan- l uary 1T, has on board the 3rd and 4th trench mortar battalions, com- pletc, and a detail of l7 officers of the Seth coast artillery regiment
 Tie battleship South Dakota, due the same day, is bringing the 56th coast artillery regiment less Battery F. and the 474th aero squadron.
 TEc Comfort. due January 20th in addition to naval personnel has on beard seven officers and 31 men Of the army as sick and wounded The 3rd trench mortar battalion is to be divided between Forts Crockett ana Logan and Camps rant and Pike About 20 per cent of the ith' trench mortar battalion will 20 to Camp McArt hur, the balance scattering.
 Assignment for early cCmvoy home of additional units of the American eXpeditiona,y forces comprising about 10000 men. was announced to- day by the war department Includ- ed were the 131st. 132nd and 133rd field artillery and the 111th am- intuition train of the seth division, consisting of Texas and Oklahoma troops.
 The battleships Georgia and Kan sas. bringing 2.65O troops home from France. arrived today.
 The battleship broueht home the sixth trench mortar battalion and the 3l1th trench mortar battery, compris- ing nearly 1000 men, including 800 sick and wounded.
 Aboard the Kansas were the 7th trench mortar battalion, 3rd anti-air- craft sector, and casual companies 320, 323, and 324, in all about 1,4O0 men.
 Boston, Jan. S.-Four more de- stroyers returning from overseas ser vice were welcomed here today. The Stringham, Sigourney and Bell were the first to arrive and they were soon followed by the Kimberley. Two other destroyers were expected later in the day. Copnhagen, Jan. 8.-The destroyers Aylwyn and Wickes of the United States navy arrived here yesterday gees, including four Americans on from Danzig with a number of refu- board. The destroyers with the cruiser Chester, will leave for Leith today.
 Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 8.-Washing- ton advices received here today say that Captain Edward " Rickenbacher and seven other American aces who have either reached home or are on they way have been called home by the government to found flying school which will rank with West Point academy and Annapolis naval academy
 Other aviators mentioned are Major Wm K. Thaw, Captain Sanford Bid dle and Lieutenant Tohn, who already are in the United States
 Camp Funston, Kas., Jan. 8.-Dis- charge of fifty per cent of the tenth division stationed at Camp Funston will begin this week under new orders directing that half of divisions strength on November 18th, be mus tered out. The division on that date totalled 27,22O men. Wheen this or der is carried out it is estimated twenty thousand men will remain in camp.
 Washington, Jan. 8.-American forces operating in Siberia and North ern Russia total 12,941 officers and men, the war department announced today. In Siberia are 255 officers and 7,267 men and in Northern Russia are 5,419 men.
 1 The units of the Archangel region are the 339th infantry, first battalion of the 31Oth engineers, the 337th field hospital and a37th ambulance com pany.
 In Siberia are the 27th and 31st in- fantry, Company D of the 53rd tele- graph battalion; field hospital Com pany No. 4, evacuation hospital No. 17: medical supply depot No. 2; 146th ordnance depot company; ambulance company No. 4, four staff officers, quartermaster corps detachment, com nrising two officers and 27 men; med ical detachment of 12 officers and 67 men, small detachment of ordnance, sginal corns. engineers, cavalry, in- telligence, Philippine scouts and pho i 1 L <