Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-26
MORE AMERICANS
REACH HOME PORTS
Returning Soldiers Arrive at
New York, Philadelphia
and Newport News.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 26.-More than
$500 drafted troops of Pennsylvania
units comprising part of the 18th
Division-arrived here today from st.
Nazaire on the steamship Princess
Matoika, which brought also 81 sick
and wounded men, a few casuals and
the 315th Bakery Company, 3,714
troops in all.
The 7sth,s units were 154th Field
Artillery Brigade Headquarters, five
'oaacers, ancluding Brig. Gen. Andrew
and sixty four inch; the 314th Infan-
try's field and staff, its twelve letter
companies and other detachments.
eighty-two officers and 2,64s men; the
panies A and B. and headquarters and
sanitary detachments, eight officers
and 300 men. and the 304th Field Sig
nal Batta1ion's Companies A, B and c
and headquarters and supply and
medical detachments, eight officers
and 451 men. These PennsyIvanians
are assigned to Camps Dix, Meade, Up
ton, Devens. Dodge, Sherman, Taylor.
Grant, Travis, Funston and Lee and
Fort D. A. Russell.
La Touraine Brings 465.
La Touraine. from Havre. brought
465 troops. comprising the 306th.
seth. 709th and 711th Motor Trans
port Companies complete and casuals
discharged or on furlough.
Medal Men on otsego.
Several medal wearers were among
the men of the LIST Battalion, 311th
1nfantry-New Jersey and western
New York troops of the 18th Division
who came Ashore today from the
Otsego.
In Company B three men had the
distinguished service cross-Platoon
Sergeant Joseph Fay of Medfo-<l,
Mass: Sergt. Tracey White of AS
bury Park. N. j., and Private Joseph
F. Aldridge of Elizabeth. N ]. The
Otsego troops were in command of
Maj. Harold Z. Watson of Fort Lo-
gan, Col, Regular Army man. Com
pany of the 311th was recruited
PANTY from Buffalo, N. Y, and vicin-
ity and partly from New Jersey; Com
pany B from Long Branch, n. j., and
Company c from southern Jersey
points
2,263 on the Montpelier.
PHILADELPHIA. May 26.-The
transport Montpelier, bringing home
from France the 312th Infantry, made
up chiefly of men from New York,
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.
in the 18th Division, arrived here yes
terday. The vessel sailed from Bor-
deaux, and had aboard sixty four Of
ficers and 2,199 men, including the
headquarters, headquarters company.
LIST and I'd Battalions headqua rters,
sanitary attachments Of the I'd and
Sd battalions. machine gun battalions
and companies A to B, inclusive
Thifty-five of the soldiers wore the
distinguished service cross. and a
large number the croix de guerre for
heroic deeds inthe battle of the Ar
gonne. The troops were in comman
of Col. A. V. p. Anderson of the Regu-
lar Army. In the capture of Grand Pre-
citadel the 312th. lost 900 men. and
it was in this engagement that many
of the men won their decorations.
More Men of 29th Arrive.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Nav &c
Additional units of the 29th (Bjue and
Cray Division arrived here yesterday
on the transport Virginian from ST.
Nazaire. On board the steamship
were IS officers and 1877 men of the
111th Field Artillery and Company b
of the 104th Ammunition Train. both
units made up mostly of Virginia
men. Other troops were Ia officers
and 1.432 men of the 412th Field Ar
tillery, the 10th Balloon Company and
81 officers and men of the 3llth Ma
chine Gun Battalion.
Secretary Glass of the Treasury and
Representative Montague of Virginia
welcomed the Virginia troops