Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-09
MAKING READY
FOR RETURN OF
IRON DIVISION
Adjutant General Beary Sc
cures War Departments
Fullest Cooperation

Philadelphia, April O. Plans for
the debarkation of the Twenty
eighth Division at the port of Phila-
delphia, decided upon by the War
Department a week ago. are rapidly
being perfected, it was disclosed to-
day after a conference between Ad-
jutant General Frank d. Beary, of
Pennsylvania and Colonel Mean
drews, of the Division of Operations
of the general STAFF.
No change is contemplated in the
program of landing the One Hun
dred and Eighth Field Artillery and
the One Hundred and Ninth and One
Hundred and Tenth Infantry at Phil
adelphia, and every effort will be
made TO parade the full division in
Philadelphia following it's inspection
at Camp Dix. Both General Beary
and Colonel McAndrews indicated to-
day the three regiments from Phil
adelphia and vicinity surely would
parade in the city and as many more
of the real Pennsylvania units Will
take part in the celebration as can
be included without seriously affect
ing the War Departments demobili-
Zation arrangements.
General Beary Satisfied
1t is the plan of the War Depart
Twenty-eighth Division at New York
and send the troops on to Camp Dix
for the divisional inspection. AS the
division during the last six months
has been filled up with a number of
replacement troops from various sec
tions of the country, it is understood
some of these will be demobilized If
they desire within forty-eight hours
after their arrival at Camp Dix. GEN
eral March, chief of staff, has recent
ly ruled that soldiers shall not be
held in camp against their Will for
parades, but in the matter of the
Twenty eighth, it has been indicated
the Pennsylvania units will be per-
suaded to go to Philadelphia for the
welcome home.
General Beary left Washington for
Harrisburg late yesterday pleased
with the developments. He said be-
fore he left he intended shortly to get
more details regarding the sailing
arrangements. but would do this by
mail, indicating his understanding
with War Department officials was
so complete another trip to WASH
ington probably would be unneces-
sary.
General Beary called at the War
Department" said Colonel Mean
drews' Ito discuss some of the de-
tails of the return of the Twenty
eighth. and he learned that no
changes had been made in the pro-
gram virtually agreed upon week
ago when he and J. Jarden Guenther.
secretary of the welcoming commit
tee, came to Washington to present
Philadelphias case.
The One Hundred and Eighth
Field Artillery, and the One Hun
dred and Ninth and One Hundred and
Tenth Infantry, the Philadelphia
units, surely will be landed and per-
mitted to parade in Philadelphia
"It is General Beary's intention to
submit some point for the further
consideration of the War Depart
ment regarding the time OF sailing
of a few additional units of the
Twenty-eighth Division. This he will
do by letter as soon as he returns.
while every consideration will be
given to any additional question re-
garding the units of the division, we
are unable to say at this time what
can be done beyond the present ar
rangement, as everything must be
done to prevent increased congestion
at the port of New York.
Besides any plans for changes in
sailing dates are likely to disarrange
the entire embarkation and debark-
alton arrangement of the War De-
partment 1t must be remembered
that the department is receiving hun
dreds of such appeals and it would
be impossible to grant them all.
General Beary has been entirely
reasonable in all the requests he has
made which naturally adds to our de-
sire to go as far as we can in meet
ing his desires as we'll as the desires
of Philadelphia. Both he and Mr..
Guenther have shown a thorough ap-
probation of the situation"