New-York tribune., 1919-05-23
lmperator
Here After
Five Years
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mine sweepers in the North Sea, part
of fleet that was doing its utmost
to keep British and American mines
out of the ports of Bremen, Hamburg
Emden and other seaports where sub
marines made their getaway.
Couldn't Keep Out Mines
owe had difficult task keeping out
the mines," he said. "Just as fast as
we cleared the roadsteads, fresh mines
of the enemy would drift in. 1t was
great menace to the dispatching of
submarines. On one occasion ship
of my command hit mine and it sank
her. l was in the water twenty min
utes until picked up by a destroyer.
The apportionment Of troops on the
transports which arrived yesterday
was: Manchuria, from St. Nazaire
4,7S4; Seattle, from Brest, 1856
Charleston, from Brest, 1,424 I'm
perator, from Brcst, 3,19O; Ohioan
from Bordeaux, 1926; Mexican, from
Bordeaux, 2,464, and the Yale, from
Brest, 29S
The biggest unit was the S9th, knowr
as the Middle West Division. The men
were assigned to the Leviathan and In
August, 1917, at Camp Funston, Kan
under the command Of Major Genera
Leonard Wood, who went down the ba,
yesterday to greet "his own fighters.
He was accompanied by Governor Aller
Of Kansas and Governor McKelvie oil
Nebraska. The division got into the
trenches in the Tou sector in Septem.
Der, 1918, and participated in the as
sault on St. Mhiel. It's total casualties
were 1902 and its decorations 1919
Eight men of the division won the
Congressional Medal of Honor, 115 the
Distinguished Service Cross, two the
Distinguished Service Medal and 6e
the Croix de Guerre.
Vice Admiral Gleaves Back
On the Leviathan were Vice Admiral
Gleaves, j1enry P. Dawson, head of the
American Red Cross, and Representa-
tive Julius Kahn. chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs of the
House. Mr.. Kahn left the Leviathan
by tug off Sandy Hook and hurried to
Washington
Prominent among the units on the
Manchuria was the 104th Engineers,
made up chiefly Of National Guardsmen
of New Jersey. They came home in
command of Colonel Fred B. Downey
OF Albany. and were greeted down the
bay by Senator Edge.
The transport Yale, which used to
run between this port and Boston and
later went to service on the Pacific
Coast between San Francisco and Los
Angeles, arrived here yesterday after
a trying voyage from Brest.
She carrie 29S officers and men.
chiefly casuals. Weather forced her into
the Azores. When 600 miles west of
Ponta Delgada she took heavy sea Off
the starboard bow. A bulkhead beneath
the pilot house was smashed. A flood
of water poured into the quarters
where some of the troops were quar-
tered and one soldiers leg was broken.
She put back TO the Azores for repairs
and fuel.
The Seattle. brought home the 324th
Field Artillery, in command of Colonel
y. |. Ashbrrn, Of Cincinnati. Also on
board was Lieutenant Vincent 7. Toole.
Roman Catholic chaplain, of Detroit.
He said the Y M. G. A. did great work
IN France and that much of the criti-
clsm against it was unwarranted. He
said that if the "Y" did charge high
for articles sold to soldiers. it was bet
ter for the troops than getting no sup
plies at all He said he saw no re-
ligious discrimination and that he had
no difficulty in celebrating mass in "Y"
huts.