Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-20
SELECTED
NEBRASKA
BOYS BACK
WAR
Artillery Regiment Trained
at Camp Dodge Reaches
New York; Heroes
Hailed With Cheers.

New York, Jan. 1o-Four steam
ships, their decks crowded with
American fighting men, hundreds of
whom gazed upon the home shores
from cots and cohvalescent chairs,
passed the Statute of Liberty today
amid din from harbor craft, bring
ing home 1892 heroes.
The climax Of the demonstration
came when the hospital ship Conn
fort, bearing 37l sick and wounded,
entered the upper bay and was hall
ed by cheers from the throngs on
shore and the strains of Home,
Sweet Home from band on board
a vessel carrying Mayor Hylan's
committee Of welcome. As the
Comfort came abreast the Statute of
Liberty great shout arose from
its decks, crowded to the rails with
soldiers in bandages, supported by
erutehes and canes or seated in easy
chairs. Through the port holes Of
the hospital ship glimpses were
caught Of the more seriously wound
ed.
The other steamships were trans
ports: the Lapland, which brought
zoos soldiers, the Sierra with Isis
and the W;lhelmina with l04l
aboard. OF the sick and wounded
brought back by the Comfort, l2g
were naval men and four were ma
rines3
Served in claremont Section.
Among the troops on the Sierra
were the Three Hundred and
Thirty-seventh regiment Of the
field artillery and 23l casual officers
and enlisted men, the latter from
hospitals in France. The artillery
regiment was trained at Camp
Dodge. Des Moines, and comprises
selected men from Minnesota, North
and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska
and Missouri. 1t had been in the
C;aremont section of France.
OF the men on the Wilhelmina,
405 were from the radio station near
Bordeaux, where they we're en-
gagged in constructing four radio
towers There were also 200 men
OF the naval aero equadron, with
base in northern France. Also on
board were the Three Hundred and
Thirty-fourth and Three Hundred
and Thirty-sixth divisions of the
medical supply unit; the Three Hun
dred and Eleventh sanitary train oi
the Eighty-sixth division; the head
quarters field hospital and three hos
pital units and 172 wounded.
Among the wounded officers or
the Comfort were Lieutenantj Al
fred NJ. Barlow, Gallipolis, o.; Far.
well Gallager, Cleveland; John M
Boston, Yorkvilie, ILL.,; Arthur Nor
ganstein, Grand Rapids, Mich; 10
seph F. Smith, Waterloo, S. c. and
Benjamin. +. Malone, Monticello
Ga.
Put Into Azores.
The Comfort left Plymouth Jan
uary S and FIVE days later put into
the Azores after a stormy passage
A turkey dinner was served thC
wounded before the ship put to ses
again and the trip from the Azore:
was in smooth seas.
Germany was in dire straits wher
the war ended, according to Capt
Robert w. Hudgens of Laurenz
| S. c.. who arrived on the Comfort
He was attached to the One Hun
| dred and Eighteenth infantry, Thir
/ tieth division, and when the tow
| Of Bellecourt was captured, the cap
tain said the Americans found th.
bodies of German soldiers being
| prepared to be rendered into fats
| A complete rendering plant wa!
found in tunnel beside the Belle
court canal Captain Hudgens said
| Three wounded heroines also werl
aboard the Comfort. All werl
nurses and one of them, Miss Ma
| rie Smith OF Berkeley, Cal, wa
wounded in the foot by shrapnel a
Chateau Thierry while attached I.
medical unit with one Of the 10
inch naval gun crews. Members o
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