The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-07
LEVIATHAN BRINGS
HALF TROOP QUOTA
Only 6,41O, Mostly Of Second
Indicate Small Percentage
Of Army Remains.
GENERAL OFFICERS BACK
80, 100000 in Gold Shipped to
Pay Troops, but Not Need
ed, Is Aboard.

France is fast losing the mighty force
Of Yankee armed men that helped her
win the war, troopships departing from
Brest recently being laden to not much
more than half their capacity. The Le-
viathan got in yesterday with 6,41o off,
GERS and men, mainly OF the Second d.
vision, when she might have brought
twice that number. She lay ten days in
Brest. where there were also twenty
nine other troopships, before she could
get evn this modest, for her, complement
of returning warriors. Not all the de-
lay was due to waiting for more troops.
1t was deemed desirable to let 1900
men who had never seen Paris, where q
tradition says all good Americans ex-
pect to go before they die, take three
days shore leave and take in the French
capital.
The trip Of the big ship was through
seas smooth as glass. to use a nautical
exaggeration, which enabled the ships
surgeon, Commander Fed A. Asserson,
TO perform without any more trouble
than II he were on solid earth, three
operations for appendicitis and one for
the draining of a pleural cavity of a
pneumonia patient. All the patients are
getting we'll
Julian Macdonald, second class cleo
trician. died of pneumonia as the trans
port neared Sandy Hook, and his body
was brought to port. as was the body
of Lieut. Commander Carries o. Mas
of the Naval Reserve and 157 West
Fortieth street. who died in Paris while
doing Red Cross work several weeks ago.
General Officers Return.
Among the general officers arriving
by the Leviathan were Major Gen. John
Blddle, who has been In command of
The American Forces in England; Brig
adier-Gen. Charles G.. Dawes, Major
Gen. William Lassiter, Brigadier-Gen.
Charles H. McKinstry and Brigadier-
Gen. Daniel F. Craig, commanding the
Second Brigade Of Field Artillery Of the
Second Division Gen. Dawes was Comp
troller of Currency in the Mckinley Ad-
ministration and was president of the
Central Trust Company of Chicago when
he went out with the Seventeenth En-
gineers He formed a plan for the pur-
chase of supplies for all the Allied Ar
miles.
Second Division Units.
Men of the Second Division coming by
the Leviathan were the 18th Field Ar
tillery. Col. David McC. McKell COM
manding, 66 officers and 1913 men; the
Second Supply Train, IS officers and 532
men. and the Second Train Headquarters
and Military Police Company, officers
and 1915 men. The final unit Of the
Fourth Division. the 39th Infantry. 106
officers and 2.569 men in command. in
command of Col. Frank C. Bellies, also
. returned.
Thine Leviathan brought back 50, S00,-
600 in gold that had been taken abroad
according to a report on the transport
to pay OF the army stationed in Brest
1t was not needed, whatever may have
been the reason for sending it over. and
that is why 1t took a round trip to
Brest.
The wiihelmina brought home the
Third Battalion OF the Sixth Marines
thus completing the Second Division, ex-
cept a Signal Battalion held on the
Rhine for duty, that will be ready ia
parade In Manhattan tomorrow. Col
Harry Lee OF Georgetown, D. c.. COM
mander of the Sixth Marines, arrived
with the Third Battalion. AS a volun-
teer second lieutenant. he served through
the Spanish war and later fol-
lowed the fortunes of his memn into
many parts of the world In proportion
to numbers, the regiment boasts of hav-
ing more decorated men than any other
command.