Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-21
SIX VESSELS BRING
14,446 MEN HOME
Doughboys Arrive in New York
to Celebrate Easter
Sunday.
TWO GERMAN LINERS DOCK
Zeppelin and Graf Waldersee
Make First Trip to This
Country Since 1914.
rBy Associated Press. !

NEW YORK, April 2o.-Six troop
ships loaded to capacity with American
officers and mcn--14,446 in ail-arrived
here today in time to celebrate Easter
Sunday on home soil
TWO of the ships which arrived were
the German liners Zeppelin and Graf
Waldersee, making their first trims
since they were turned over to the
United States.
The Zeppelin. flying the intcrnation-
brought. 1850 men. including the one
Hundred and Twcnty-ninth field ar
tillerT complete, fifty.threc officers
and Thirty ninth ambulance com
pany. three officers and lO3 men, sew
enty-three casual officers and a detach-
nf 1ehs hssn %. ] ne 3,nGer and forty-onc nurses 8
On the Graf Waldersee were 1.741
bbtmGG1s bn.r ann men, the majority being
ments of the Fifth. Fourteenth. Twen-
tFifhFsi Fiftie,b Eorsg,seeond; Fosty. fourth,
enth s and Two Hundred and Second
eighteen casual officers and fifty-cirht [
conValescents.
German Omcers Aboard.
Both ships had on board parties OF
German officers. who had turned the
ships over TO the United States. and
VINO mad made the trip across repre-
senting MIN the German government.
raj ung Other Ni-, arrivals were the big
ana men, including the Three Hum
na Hsed and Sixteenth ammunition train
heae heada parteiS, , headquarters motor and
detachments and Companies A to c..
,n notai OF sixteen officers and l.126
men; mem. Ninei,iy-iirst .sii division detaoh-
95l men; Three Hundred and Forty
seventh machine gun battalion. head
auarters detachment, medical detach-
nj
oifiSers and s35 men; Three Hundred
anu sixteenth sanitary train. headQuar-
eamn serS; ins diSlsion ls,o medical supply unit
36i to 364. hca adquarters amtuiance
sec5ion sc and ambulance companies 36l
Inree hundred and Sixty-seyenth IN
lantry machine gun company, Ave Of
ncers and l79 men. together with sew
ed. A' 80 '"ouhu-
Bring Ambulance Men,
The Great Northern brought ono
tIoops. comprising .theS One lHundred
and s Tenth ammunition train complete,
convalescent wounded, eighteen "a si,SJ
companies of marines and fuflomched
,a mel SIXTEEN officers and 674 men scat
tereu, Oh United States army ambulan nee
sections. and twenty-iour casua, otH-
GERS. o'''-
o..I The Santa Paula brought 2.la4 off,
the FOrty-Sec-
ond base hospital. two officers and I43
men; Three Hundred and iXteenth sun
ply train, headquarters and medical
detachinents and Companies A 10 +
nine oihcers and 4T4 men; One Hun
dred and Thirteenth Transportation
corps, two officers and 226 men. Second
trench mortar battalion. headuuarters
ana in medical detachments and Batter
1e les a TO ID, six officers and 57l men:
Three Hundred and Seventv-sixth
aero squadron. one officer and I52 men:
supply squadron, one officer and IIi
men, Fourth trench mortar battery
one o,hcer and l49 men. and wounded
cOh'aiescents, 156 men.
Telegraph Men Return.
The cruiser Seattle brought | 635 Of
neers and men, including thirty-two
casual officers: fourteen casual com
panies; Fifth army headquarters troop.
ared and Thirty--fifth field hospital.
Iour officers and seventy-eiEht men:
pioneer Infantry seven
olncers and 426 men; Four Hundred
ana Fifth telegraph battalion, Compa
men, aio -oo
Debarkation authorities said that
from 9:2o to 1910 a. ST. a record was
glnlan; Great Northern. Zeppelin and
Graz Waldersee being put into their
oerths In that period by three tugs.