New-York tribune., 1919-04-26
2.2,973} Troops
Arrive I'm H)av.
Setting Record
L. III. Hitchcock and w. g..
Sharp Among Civilians on
LcviatIlan, Which Returns
Coniingcnts Of Rainbow

Tho biggest number Of homecoming
troops that has arrived in this port in
ono day came in yesterday on six
steamships, the total being 22,973 Off
GERS and men. Had it not been for tho
timely arrival just before dark Of the
Lcviathan-l largest OF all transports-~
with l2,05O men the day would not have
gone into history as Il record breaker.
The Lcviathan was pushed to hor
utmost to get in before sunsct and
started discmbarking troops shortly
before Z p IN. Shipping men believed
TINT the navy would not be able to dock
her because Of tho etiT wind from tho
west, but she wn9 warped in with tho
same case that has been characteristic
Of each Of her arrivals from BrcDt.
Ma lor General George W. Read, COM
mandcr OF the 12d Divsion, was in
command OF the l2,O50 officers and
men on board, and with him came Brig
adler General Douglas Macarthur. of
tho s1th Infantry Brigade, and Major
General Samuel ID. Sturgis, who tray-
clled ns casual officers.
Frank II. Hitchcock, the former Post
master General and former chairman
of the Republican National Committee.
returned on the l.eviathan after n trip
Of three months abroad. He said his
visit to Paris had nothing to do with
politics and that the sole reason for
his remaining therc after his visit to
London was to urge that the Monroe
Doctrine be included in the covenant
OF the peace conference.
Praises ex-Ambassador Sharp
He went abroad to attend the con-
ference Of the league of nations in
London and later learned that the Mon
vi 10 !,
the treaty. This, he said, prompted him
to hasten to Paris, where he used his
influence to have this policy included
in the covenant He made severfA
trips through the devastated regions Of
Belgium and France. He said that
William c. Sharp, retiring American
Ambassador TO France, had made a
splendid record and stood in high re-
gard with the French ration
Mr. Sharp, who was accompanied by
his wife and five children on the Levi
athan, said his four years and eight
months IN France during the trying
times of war had been most interest
ing.
II have not the slightest doubt" he
said, that tho peace C~aference
Will do its work satisfactorily. 1t is
hardly to be expected that perfect har-
mony could prevail among so many di-
NcrgehC opinions and where such great
questions are to be settled | feel that
the great covenant of peace will be
reached with fairness and wisdom"
More Of Rainbow Men Home
The greater part of The Lcviathan's
troops were of the Rainbow Division,
consisting Of 400 officers and 11,619
men. The 42d lost 600 killed and 3 1900
wounded. The Distinguished Service
Cross was conferred upon 20 men;
fifteen received the Croix de Guerre.
Among the d. S. c. men who re-
turned last night was Henry c.. Ricket.
of Columbus, Ohio. Under heavy fire
ne went to n stream for water for his
kitchen near Viller-sur- Ferc on july
20, and saved twenty men from ma
chime gun fire by dragging them to a
place of safety.
The Lcviathan brought homo 1.150
wounded and sick besides 1850 with
tuberculosis. Three died on the
voyage. They were: Privates Harry
Bloom, 10th Infantry, 104 Orchard
street, Now York, died of gunshot
wounds; Alfred Ilendrickson, Iiobokcn.
same cause, and Timothy HARRINGTON
2oth Infantry, of 2201 Seventh Avenue
New York, of tuberculosis