The evening world., 1919-05-29
10000 SOLDIERS
BACK FROM FRONT;
10000 NEAR PORT
kroonland Brings 1911 In
cluding Joan of Arc Division
Doughboys Coal Ship.

transports reached port early this
afternoon, ahe Kroonland with ash
troops, from ~. Nazaire. bringing che
largest number Of troops Of tho nve
transports which came into the har-
Dor. Before she reached her pier Rt
Hoboken the Cape May was dlgom-
tar<lng her 1890 men. The Italia:
from Marseillcs, arrived with i,O67
troops and doclSed shortly after noon.
The Julia Luckenbach arrived from
bordeaux with 2.722 men OF the siOth
Infantry. 18TH Division. The Pastores
wns reported OF Sandy Hook with
2.13s morn from 81 Nakaire.
The Kroonland brought another
contingent Of the 18th Joan OF Aru)
Division. principally men from Penn
sylvahlA- Major Gen. Joseph T..
Kuhn. commander OF the division and
one OF The two commanders who
brought back the examinations with
which they sailed from this country,
returned with his command Before
sailing Gen. Kuhn was decorated with
full military honors with the ribbon
OF the Legion OF Honor. Of which he
was made a commander. and with the
French Cross OF War The ceremony
took place nj Nantes. with two French
battalions and a detachment OF u. &.
Marines occupying three sides of a
square and the Legion OF Honor mem
bers making the fourth.
The citation paid a high tribute TO
the 18th Division. reolting that II
showed the spirit OF sacrffice. In
taking leave OF his men at the rier,
Gen. Kuhn said that the Division had
had 1896 killed and 6.19t wounded.
Major sydney l.. Smith was the
only New York man on the trans
port. He iH a well known mining en-
gineer. who dropped his business and
gave up important contracts TO 70
10 the war. For two months he was
on the War Damage Board. which
sat with the Peace Conference.
On tho Kroonland werO the s0+th
Engineers. Headquarters. Sanitary
Detachment, Train Headquarters
Company and Companies A TO +. In
elusive: goth Engineers, 7th Bat
TALON. and Headquarters Medical De-
tAchment and Companies 10. 20
and 81; b0lst Enginoors. HeadquAr-
ters and Medical Detachments and
Companies b and ID; 10th Division
Headquarters Troop. 7Sth Division
Headquarters and Motor Transport
Detachment; Si6th Infantry Head
quarters. I'D Battalion, Sanitary De-
tachments. Companies l. and NJ and
Detachment Company X; nth Com
pany. I'd Regiment Air Service Me-
chanics; 18th Company. I'd Regimont.
Air Service Mechanics, and the 6tSth
Aero Squadron.
The Italia brought home 1.0it Of
fcers and men and the story OF q
Characteristic incident at Gibralter H.
lustratinR the anxiety OF the American
soldiers 10 get back 10 the United
States In a hurry. II appears that
the Italia was unable to get coal at
karseiiles and put into Gibraltar for
q supply.
On their arrival at Gibraltar the
officers OF the ship found the Span
lsh stevedores too tired to work: they
having attended a bull night some
where in Spain the day before. The
Eext day one OF the most popular
stevedores got married and the whole
OUTFIT OF stevedores attended the wed
ding. The third day was a fiesta lT
honor OF some saint and the steve
dores would not work and the cap.
tain OF the Italia was notified on the
morning OF the fourth day that th'
nssta had been celebrated so thor
oughly as TO call for q day OF rest
: The soldiers had been inpatient!
waiting three days and wanted 20 b
on their way A committee OF then
called on the captain and volunteers
10 coal the ship. Several hundred o
the huskiest dOughboys turned in an
In eight hours they broke all por
!. records by putting 1000 tons OF coal 4
:. the bunkers OF the Italia and the oil
ship steamed out OF Gibraltar tina
= might
All troops on the italia were casual
except 425 men OF the 3lSth Field SIG
9 nal Battalion OF the First Army. I
this OUTFIT was Company A, which
n composed OF sixty trained employee
OF the Western Electric compan,
II who were organized by Capt. Georl
c. Pratt, secretary OF that corport
tion. Company A did all the rad
work for the First Army in the S
Mihiel and Argonne drives.
III Private william NJ. Ferguson OF N
1857 Third Avenue. Company C, 10
Ammunition Train. eth Division. al
ii Private Matt Donnelly OF the Bron
who was in the 77th Division, can
home on the Italia and they we
probably the last members OF the
tNo divisions to leave France. Bo
have been in hospitals
II The julia Luckenback. when !
miles from Bordeaux In the Bay
Biscay narrowly escaped a floatil
" nina ufhfch WAS aunk hu S-lfTa a