The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-23
TWO SHIPS BRING
5000 TROOPS HERE
Many New York Doughboys
Arrive on Cretic and
Manchuria.
100 WOUNDED ON LIST
Corporal Changers Life Saved
by Blood TRANSMISSION From
Australian.


This city and adjoining places arrived yes
terday aboard two transports. the White
star liner Cretic. lent 10 Uncle Sam by
his British war ally. and the American
steamship Manchuria. There were more
than 5000 OF the khaki clad and
hundred or so OF our blue uniformed sea-
going fighters who regretted that they
did not get so big chance to knock
out the Hun as their shipmates ashore
Aboard the Cretic were more than 100
wounded men who had formerly Fought
with New York regiments In the illus
trious Twenty seventh Division. Fifty
two of the total wounded of 21o aboard
the Cretic were unable to walk ana
were taken to shore hospitals on stretch
ers.
Among the wounded who limped 10
tho solid foundation OF his old home
town was Corporal John McCleave
Granger. Company NJ. 10th Infantry. OF
5s5 West l35th street. With a squad
of barbed wire cutters Corporal Granger
took part in the attack on the Hinden-
burg line on September &c. a shell came
through the barbed wire and tore of his
right leg above the knee.
Prisoners Forced to Help.
squad was putting the corporal on
stretcher when another shell burst near
them and carried away Entratts left
leg Before this had happened the gal
liant doughboys had captured bunch or
German prisoners and four of them were
pressed into service to carry the wounded
20 a first aid station.
In the rough work of transferring him
by stretcher to the station Granger lost
u lot of blood and consciousness. the
surgeon in charge called for volunteers
10 give their blood 10 save Granger,
Many responded. but one of the huskiest,
Private T. J. Chimmirs of the Eleventh
Australian Ambulance Corps was Sc
1ected for the TRANSMISSION ordeal. Granger
was brought back to consciousness
swiftly. He got n pint and half or
real Australian blood and feels so much
like a native OF Kangaroo land that he
regards Chlmmirs as n brother and mas
written him reams of letters to show
how much he appreciates the fine Aus
tralian infusion that enabled him to re-
turn to Broadway.
Tho case of Private Frank Fetry,
Ogdensburg, sharpshooter OF Company
y. 10th Infantry. was bit unusual
He was twice cited for picking off Huns
from his perch in n canoutiaged tree,
using smokeless powder. and accounted
for twenty-one of the enemy, when he
discovered that the Huns also were do
ing things in camoufage. They had
been unable to locate his deadly fire. but
finally moved into his neighborhood.
without his knowledge. what he sup
posed was a dead horse.
It was merely a sinlulacrum and. as
Perry said. II he had known the kick II
had he would not have revealed himself
TO the German sntper secreted IN the
sham horse. The German shot Petry IN
the law and the leg He was forced to
stay in the tree so long that his wound
in the leg was infected and the leg was
amputated.
Regiment Fired G.OOO Shells.
Lieut. Col. W. L. Rhoades OF TIE Reg
ulars, who said his home, as regular.
was where he hangs his hat, went across
in April. 1918, In command of the Forty
fourth Heavy Artillery, equipped with
eight inch howitZers. His detachment
was the first to cross the border between
France and Alsace-Lorraine. fighting
their way to It. The regiment fired 5000
shells up TO the minute the armistice
came.
The Fifty-ffth Coast Artillery, made
up OF Boston Regular Army men under
command OF Col. John l. Roberts. once an
officer Of the Seventh Regiment Of this
city. was the chief complete unit arriv-
ing by the Cretic. Although this regi-
inent saw heavy fighting. firing 32.G7S
shells, its losses were small. 1t was
cited by French and American command
Ing officers for its fredericksburg devo-
ton TO duty and superb efficiency"
Two doushboys died OF pneumonia on
tho Cretic while she was in midocean
and were buried over the side with MILL
tary honors. They were Sergeant WILL
lam J. Phillips Of the headquarters OF
the Fifty-ffth Regiment, who lived Al
Tamaqua, Pa, and Private Frederick q
0uyette. also OF the Fifty-fifth. of Wis
consn.
Major Frank II. Baker OF the Quarter
masters Corps, brother of the Secretary
OF War admitted that the condition OF
the authorization camp az Brest was not
good, but he said the army was strenu'
ously striving TO make it better and was
speeding the men homeward.
Greeted by Mayors Committee.
Tho Cretlc and the Manchuria were
greeted down the bay by the Mayors
Committee aboard the Patrol. which also
carried Mrs. John I. Roberts, wife of tbs
commander of the F!fty-ffth Coast Ar
tillery: Col. William e Wood, chief o.
stafr Of tho police reserves; Mrs. G. L
Griffin Of the Hotel Ansonia. Mrs. Henri
Roynton Johnson and delegation from
tho New England States. The Patro
showered cigarettes. tobacco and choco
lates on the returning soldiers. as usual
OF the Manchuria's 4,457 officers ant
men more than 1000 were Ill OF
wounded. Among the latter was Lieut.
Joseph Brady Of the Fifth Marines, for
rnerly reporter for the Evcnin0 World
He enlisted as a private and fought or
eight sectors and won his promotion b!
yallantry He was wounded at Chateau
Thierry and sassed at Scissors. He VOL
his bars by carrying four guns through
a ravine and breaking a German cavalr,
attack.
Lieut.. Paul f. Boomer OF Beaver Dam
Wis, fought with the Twelfth Machine
Gun Battalion. He received seven ma
chine gun bullets on October IL and tina
ended his usefulness for the rest of tn
war. He won the Croix de Guerre AM
two citations for rescuing a French lieu
tenant, crawling out into No Mans Lam
under heavy fire and bringing tn
wounded man to shelter on his back.
Dunked with Quentin Roosevelt.
Lieut.. Ralph Twitchell of Winter PARK
Fla. personal friend and brother aviato
Of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, said tina
he and young Roosevelt were bunkie
and gave this tribute to him: 'IIe wa
prince of a mate and an intrepl
lighter who never used his nanlo, as
lever for personal advancement or favor
The day after he was killed / awok
in hospital with n fractured skull an
internal injuries. I shall always believ
4lat lG ha1 i'm IN do x.,tt