Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
MONGOLIA DOCKS WITH q, 700 OF 2 orMarnra L.a
n GET GREAT WELCOME AT THE PIER
General Edwards Decorates Private Elliott With
 Croix De Guerre.

sion here today. They entrain- ed immediately for Camp Dev-
 ems to join the 17,000 Yankee
 division comrades who pre- ceded them in the return from France. | The Mongolia, of the troopships to arrive with units of the 26th Division, | brought the 1O2nd and 103rd Field Artillery, four batteries of the 1O1st and Brtgadier General John H. Sher-
 berne, commander of the 51st Artil- lery Brigade, with his headquarters
 outfit.
 The transport anchored in President Roads at $40 a. m. and remained there until 6:45, when she started up the harbor on the last lap of her voy- age escorted by fleet of welcoming committee boats. She docked at Commonwealth Pier at 7:S0.
 Notwithstanding the early hour of her arrival she was given a reception fully equal to that accorded the trans ports which had preceded her. Gov ernor Coolidge of this state. Governor Beekman of Rhode Island, and Major General Clarence R Edwards, former commander of the division, with off, cials from various cities, led the wei coming delegations.
 | General Edwards and the two gov l ernOrs went aboard the troOpship from their steamer and were cheered heartily by the artillery men. The lcheering was renewed when the gen. eraI called Private Norman F. Elliott of Webster from the crowd and pre- Sented him with the Croix de GuerTe for gallant conduct at Seicheprey. It was Rhode Islands special greeting day. Young men of that state enter largely into the makeup of the 1N3rd
 Field Artillery and their mothers, wives, sweethearts and fathers. with state officials, senators, congressman anid mayors were out long before day light to meet them.
 Five hundred from Providence and l nearby places came by special train 1 leaving Providence at 4 a. m., and,
 led by Mayor J. H. Gainer, boarded
 steamers which took them down the I har'bor. It was just dawn when they 1 caught their first glimpse of the Mon golia through the mist. The yell that ! arose gave the artillerymen the cheer est reville call they have had since ! they left home IS months ago.
 | Governor Beeckman and some 1 members of the Rhode Island deIega- l C. D. S.
 while others from that state were on 1 the steamship John H. Sullivan. I As q special tribute to Brigadier- l General Sherberne, former member of the Massachusetts house, more than two-thirds of the members of the legislature were among the welcom- ing hosts. The artillery units arriv- | ing the Mongolia were more di- rectly representative of New England than any of the other contingents of the Yankee division that have re- turned. Fewer replacements from | outside New England were necessary to maintain the strength of the bat teries in action and they returned composed almost entirely of Massa- chusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut, ! Maine and New Hampshire men. l The official casualty list of the 102d Field Artillery Regiment, given out by the adjutant, included 30 men and 1 two officers killed in action and 352 1 officers and men wounded Sixty | per cent. of the members of the bat
 teries to return today had been with i the outfit since it went overseas. Colonel J. F. J. Herbert, command
 ing, told the stories of Private FL | Mott of Battery E of the 1O2d, who. | was decorated by General Edwards. 1 and of Private Joseph Parent, anoth
 CT Webster boy, who also won the Croix de Guerre. Elliott was taken
 prisoner at SeIcheprey. April ?, 1917,
 and was reported missing. The | French awarded him the war cross l and it was sent to his mother. When the armistice was signed he was re- leased and sent word home that he l had gone back to his battery. Mrs.
 Elliott forwarded the decoration to | General Edwards in order that he
 might present it on the transport. Colonel Herbert said that Elliott l was one of IA men holding a dugout
 at Seigheprey against a large number
 of Germans. The enemy used smoke bombs and attacked with bayonets, l four of the Yankees being killed and 1 three wounded. The others were l captured. Elliott was one of these.
 That was before the Germans | knew they had lost the war" said l Elliott. who was standing near his
 colonel, and We certainly got rough 1 treatment. They took everything l away from us but our trousers and
 shirts. They fed us two bowls of bad soup in the first 4s hours and made
 us work like dogs. first cleaning streets and later in a mine.'
 Private Parent wears both the CroiX de Guerre and the Distinguish , ed Service Cross. He won them at Seicheprey when he brought in from No Mans Land a buddy who was , badly wounded and then returned and l finished the job of reconstructing , wire entanglement he had been work ing on. This was done under fire and !. Parent was wounded in the head and leg but stuck to his job. General Edwards gave him warm hand clasp today.
 According to Colonel Herbert, Ma
 jor Frank Cavanaugh. the former
 Dartmouth football coach. who was
 wounded in the face in the Davine
 des Bois Caures, north of Nerdun,
 will probably arrive on the next
 transport. Major Cavanaugh was hit when shell exploded near him. He received cut under his right eye, but