Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
THOUSANDS OF
18TH DIVISION
ON WAY HOME
Transports Carrying Fighting
Pennsylvanians Steaming
Across the Ocean
HARRISBURGERS ABOARD
Many of Old Eighth Regiment
will Land May 4 at
Newport News

Several hundred Harrisburg Ma
uonal Guardsmen who fought in
France with the Keystone Division
are included among the thirty-three
per cent. of the 2Sth Division who
have already taken transport for
this country. Major General Charles
II. Muir commanding officer of the
much-cited division, is homeward
bound with a number of units under
his command aboard the United
States transport Mercury.
Company ID, of the old Eighth
Regiment, made up almost entirely
of Harrisburgers, will be the first of
the three local units to return home.
1t is sailing with a number of other
companies of the 1l2th Regiment of
Infantry, of which it is now a men,
ber, aboard the Mercury, which Is
scheduled to arrive at Newport News
on May 4.
General Muir on Board
On the vessel with General Muir
are headquarters troops and head
quarters detachment of the 2Sth Di-
panies A, Il, & and ID, of the 1l2th
infantry Regiment. These companies
were comprised of men from the
former Sth and 10th Pennsylvania
Infantry Regiments. The men were
mobilized in Harrisburg, Oil City,
Cory, Tamaqua, Meadville, Brad
ford, Chambersburg and York.
Another transport, the steamship
Finland, en- route to Newport News,
has on board one detachment of 2Sth
Division headquarters, field and staff,
First Battalion Headquarters, and
Companies A, B, c, d and L, 103d
Engineers. The latter units were
Sgomposed entirely of Philadelphians,
scranton. West Pittston, Schuylkill |
Haven and Pottsville. These units
originally were known as the First
Engineers of Pennsylvania National |
Guard.
To Arrive Next Week
Two troop ships will come early |
next week, It was said. The kroon- |
land, bearing 81 officers and 1883
men, of the 111th Infantry, the 109th
Infantry, and ten officers and ten
men of the headquarters staff of the
2Sth Division will come to Newport
News. The 111th Regiment men to
arrive are Companies l. to NJ, with
the First and Third battalions, part
of the medical corps. one machine
gun company is also included. of
the 1O9th Regiment there will come
10 Newport News Companies A to ID,
and part of the medical and head
quarters staff.
The Minnesota. with twenty-seven
officers and 1,744 men, will dock in
New York either Sunday or Monday.
All the men are of the 111th In
fantry and include Companies A to
T., and part of the headquarters,
medical and supply branches.
ON May 1, the Pocohontas, with
sixty-siX officers and 2,72S men, will
come to Newport News. These men
are from the 109th machine gun bat
talon, the 139th Infantry and the
l2Sth machine gun company.
Parade Plans Unsettled
report that Company | of the |
old Eighth Regiment, another unit
of Harrisburg men, was aboard the
Pocahontas, which is scheduled to
land at Newport News one week
from tomorrow, is not borne out bv
dispatches received in this city.
Old Company ID is the only one of
the three local units that is known
to have sailed, it being aboard the
4htiIuiN' WHICH Will fe1Cn Newport |
News on May 4. 1t is known that
the old Governors Troop, now a !
unit of the one Hundred and Eighth
Field Artillery, has not yet taken /
passage for the home voyage
The Adjutant Generals office is !
unable to-day to give information !
as to the units which have sailed |
for home. Adjutant General Beary |
is in Washington to-day and no !
definite information from the Penn |
sylvania department will be avail |
able to-day.
Plans for the parade of the divi- |
sion in Philadelphia are anything !
but settled, reports from that city |
say. The manner in which the !;
members of the division are being |
distributed among Army camps of !
fourteen States, instead of being |
concentrated in any one camp, |
would appear to indicate that it |
will be impossible to have a full di- |
visional parade in the Quaker City. |