The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-04
ALL HOME JULY 1
Middle Western Divisions Over
seas Have Sailing Dates.
>, Thirty-Fifth Will Be Fourth
Unit Leaving in April.
READY FOR DISCHARGE MAY IS
Eighty-Ninth To Follow Close
ly-Six Divisions After.
Rainbow May Float Down
Rhine Before Coming Home.

(By Union Pacific r. r. Press Bureau)
Washington, d. c., March 1.-THE
last of the middle western divisions
will be home by July 1.
The statement at the war depart
ment that the sailing schedule as an
nounced should not only be adhered
to but possibly might be speeded up,
makes this assumption possible. This
schedule as it now stands gives the
35th as the fourth division to sail in
April and the S9th as the first to sail
in June.
Ahead of the 35th or the April sail
ings are the 26th, 18th and send di-
visions. Word has been received in
New York stating positively that the
77tn will sal, on April ! 5, Indicating
that the sailing date of the 35th Will
be around the Goth. This should get
il to this country by May l. and in
Camp Funston for discharge by the
18th.
The s9th division will follow the
35th shortly, according to the sched-
ule, only six divisions embarking be-
tween them. 1t should reach Camp
Funston by July l. Because of its
position in the army of occupation. it
will probably sail from a French
port.
Rainbow Down Rhine.
The 42nd or Rainbow division. how
ever, may be floated down the Rhine
and embarked from a North Sea port,
that arrangement having been men
toned as possible. Containing several
organiza lions from the middle west,
including the 117th ammunition train,
il is scheduled to leave Tor this coun-
try the latter part of April. It's mid
die western men should arrive at
Camp Funston for discharge during
the latter part of May. unless the unit
as a whole is held in the east for off
cial welcome. This is not probable,
however.
The 91st division, trained at Camp
Lewis and containing units of Wyom-
ing men, sails the last of March, and
by that time the 30th, SAth and 10th
divisions, all containing thousands of
middle westerners. should all be in
camps on this side.
The divisions of the expeditionary
forces having regular army designa-
tions are not mentioned for sailing on
the present schedule.
Troops not assigned to divisions.
such as those in the service of sup
ply, labor battalions. etc. will be re-
turned in the order that their services
can be spared and as far as possible
in the order of their arrival in France,
according to the schedule of sailing
issued here. Combat troops which
have not been assigned to divisions
will return in the order in which they
can be spared.
Kansans in S7th Division.
Altho the S7th division, which is
now being landed in this country, was
trained at Camp Pike originally with
Arkansas, Alabama and southern men.
1t was later filled up from Camp Fun
stOn and its organizations contain men
from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado,
South Dakota and Nebraska. Under
command of Maj. Gen. S. D. Sturgis
it was used as a replacement division
in France, and altho it never saw
combat as a division, many of it's or
CARNATIONS did
Preceded by a sanitary detachment
+ of two officers and five men on the
"SibOney" a day or so ahead. the first
and third battalions of the 34Sth in
f. ntry of the S7th will reach New
York about March s, including the