Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-06
GREAT LINERS IN
PORT WITH YANKS
FROM WAR FIELDS
10000 on Leviathan; 1876 on
Mauretania as They Reach
New York Today
Rr Associatcd Press.

New York, March 6.-Major Gen
eral John f. Organ and several
thousand officers and men of the IA
NOUS 27th division, former National
Guardsmen of this city and other
sections of the state, received their
first welcome in home waters early
to-day when the transport Leviathan
picked up at Ambrose channel light
ship mail, newspapers and an Of
fetal letter of greeting from Mayor
Hylan.
The Leviathan and the Mauretania,
which also arrived day, carried
1900 men of the 27th division.
Other units of the division, which
fought with the British in France
and Belgium, will arrive on other
transports due here within few
days. The triumphal parade of the
entire division will be held on March
20, if tentative plans of the recep-
ton committees are approved by
General O'Ryan.
10000 Troops on Leviathan
The troops on the Leviathan num-
Der n few hundred more than $1,000.
They comprise the One Hundred and
Fifth and One Hundred and Sixth
Infantry complete, one Hundred and
Seventh Infantry, field and staff and
First and Second Battalions; sixteen
officers and G33 men of one Hun
dred and Fifth Machine Gun Bat
TALON, five officers and twenty-four
men of the Fifty-third Infantry Bri-
gade headquarters, eight officers and
thirty-six men of the divisions s
headquarters troops and one officer
and six men of the policing depart
ment.
Also on the Leviathan are sixty
casual officers of various branches
of the service, 1ifty-siX nurses and
eighty-one civilians, together with
1,179 sick and wounded.
The Twenty y-seVenth's troops on
the Mauretania totaled 3,736, COM
prising the one Hundred and
| Eighth Infantry complete, Fifty
fourth Infantry Brigade headquar-
! ters and the one Hundrded and Sec
ond Train Headquarters.
Generals on Casual List
! Brigadier General Frank r.. Hines,
general staff, travelled as Il casual,
as did Brigadicr General Palmer f.
! Pierce, commanding the Fifty-fourth
| Infantry. There We're several hun
| dred casuals and nurses. Seven Of
| flcers, seventeen men, one nurse and
one civilian were sick or wounded
The transport Caronia arrived
| here to-day from Brest with One
| Hundred and twenty-five officers
| and 3,7SS colored troops, a major
| ity of them of the Ninety second Di-
vision CNational Army. The units
/ included the Three Hundred and
Seventeenth Engineers complete, a
| detachment of the Three Hundred
/ and Seventeenth Engineer Train, the
| Three Hundred and Fiftieth Ma
chine Gun Battalion complete, Bat
| teries Il and II of the Three Hun
dred and Forty Field Artil-
lery Company II of the Three Hun
dred and SiXty-seVenth Infantry, de-
! tachment of the Three Hundred and
! Sixty eighth Infantry and Ninety
second Division detachments Nos.
2, 8, 4 and 5.
Additional Ninety-second Division
/ troops-twenty-four officers and 7Og
men of the Three Hundred and
fifty-first Machine Gun Battalion
arrived on the transport Oriana
which brought altogether 1O5 Off.
GERS and 922 troops. Organization,
aboard included casual company No
929 tPennsylvania) and other cas-.
uals and civilians.
The steamship Maiden arrived
from st. NaZaire with twenty-on,
casuals.