New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
1851 Soldiers
Return i'm Day
| On 6 Vessels
War Correspondent Asserts
Wilson's Popularity in
Europe Is Waning Because
/ of cord at Home

Odds and ends of many fighting units
that saw heavy service with the A. f.
F.. consisting Of Is 57l officers and men,
came home yesterday from French
ports on six transports. Some of the
vessels carried civilian passengers, in
eluding brides AND children of soldiers
and war workers.
On the kaiserin Auguste Victoria.
which carried 5,lS5 warriors, was
Thomas NJ. Johnson, war spondent
Of "The Evening Sun who went to
France soon after Amo RIGA entered the
war. He said that the almost bound
less admiration the people of Europe
had first displayed toward President
Wilson was now dwindling, and that
Wilson is losing prestige in France and
in England, except iii the realm of the
Socialists.
"Ths loss of PRESTIGE said Mr..
Johnson. "is in a measure due to the
continual renorts in Paris that the
President is not backed up by the rep
resenta.ive politicians of this country.
The Socialist party of France, however.
is still strongly nro-Wilson.
"The great trouble in France just
now is that the whole nation, like all
the other nations that were war-racked,
is suffering from shell shock. During
the war they were concentrating on one
thing. Now that peace has come, they
do not know how to conduct themselves
in normal fashion. This condition has
been provocative of much internal fric
tion on various questions. some Of
which were of no great Importance"
Seeking New Strength
Mr.. Johnson said that the proposed
exodus of Germans to South America
was nothing more than an effort on the
part of Germany TO seek restoration
of her prestige in the South American
republics.
The Pr:nz Friedrich Wilhelm. for
merly of ,ne North German Lloyd Line.
brought home an unusual unit called
the Reserve Iallet, so named because
its first commander was Major Mallet,
of the French cavalry. The unit, which
fought with the French before America
entered the war, was taken over by
the American army at scissors in Oc-
tober 1917 and later was Joined by
the 407th, 409th and 409th Ammuni-
ton Trains. The Reserve Mallct, al
though it became part of the A. E. F..
was typically French throughout the
war. 1t was made up largely Of young
college men and adventurous Amer
leans who went overseas soon after
the European war began.
The organization took part in eleven
offensives on the West front and is en-
titled to wear eight stars for partici-
patton in major operations Forty OF
its men have been decorated with the
Croix de Guerre. The Reserve came
home in command of Major Philip B.
Potter, of this city.
Among ether units on the Prinz
Friedrich were the 31st Machine Gun
Battalion and the 23d Engineers.
On the Great Northern, one Of the
fast troop ships in the overseas trans
port service, came 1881 officers and
men. She left Brest three hours after
the lmperator cleared for New York
and beat her to port by about twenty
seven hours.
Has Three Operations
Lieutenant Commander E. A. Lee
chief surgeon of the vessel, who was
graduated from Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, performed three operations on the
run across the Atlantic, and the patients
were in good condition when the ship
docked yesterday.
Corporal James Burke of La Crosse,
Wis, stricken with acute appendicitis