The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-31
TRANSPORTS ARE
COMING FAST
Five of Them Reach Port To-
day, Bringing Hundreds of
Troops Home from
Europe.
LIST OF THOSE ABOARD
French Liner Brings $50, Maui,
oney, Alaskan and culgoa All
Have Many Pas
sensers.
LIST OF THOSE ABOARD

NEW YORK, March 31.-The fol-
lowing transports arrived here TO-
day: Maui, Siboney and Alaskan. The
Culgoa is scheduled to arrive this
afternoon.
Returning on the Maui was Briga-
dier General Sanford B. Stansbery.
,, commanding the 73rd infantry brig
ade headquarters, and companies OF
the 146th infantry, 65 officers and
2,617 men, the majority of whom
were from Camp Sherman.
| Other organizations were casual
companies 1926, New Jersey; 1927.
South Carolina; 1928, Illinois, and
| 72S, scattered, and special casual
| company TAI, 73rd infantry brigade
headquarters, fifteen casual officers,
and Brest convalescent detachment
| numbers 131 to 1875, inclusive.
| On the Alaskan were the 146th In
! fantry, field and staff, second and
| third battalion headquarters COM
4 pany, supply company, mess detach-
! ment, nsedicalA detachment, and com.
/ panies E, f, G, H, I, K, L and nj,
/ forty officers and 2,0S1 men, and
casual companies 604 and GIL.
1 There were 3,297 officers and men
/! on the Siboney, of the following or
ganizations:
Three hunlred and sixty-third in
/ fantry, headquarters, second battalion
supply company and companies F, G
and H, thirty-nine officers and S61
men; 364th infantry, field and staff
Headquarters third battalion, ord
nance and medical detachments,
headquarters supply and machine
gun companies, and companies A, B,
| /, K, l. and NJ fifty-one officers and
2,O69 men; casual company No. 612.
New York; special casual companies
! 61S and 619, st. Nazaire convalescent
detachment No 13O and two casual
officers.
| The Culgoa has 1O4 men of the fol-
! lowing casual companies: 2S2, Arkan-
sas, 2S3, Texas; 274, North Carolina;
2S9, scattered; 292, Texas; 29s, Penn
sylvania.
The French liner La Lorraine ar
rived later with $50 passengers, irteaud-
ing 287 officers and soldiers Of the fol
flowing casual companies:
Two thousand four hundred and
iseventy-six, regulars 2477 scattered:
i247S, South Carolina; 24S0, Nebraska,
and 24S1 scattered, special casual
company 2474, for discharge and four
casual officers.
Aboard the Maui was Brig. Gen.
Stanford B. Stansbury, in command
'of the returning 73rd infantry brigade
of the 18th division, with the general
was his son, Carol J. Stansbury,
private and orderly to his father.
General Stansbury went across with
the Ohio troops but later was trans
ferred to the 18th division and finish
ed the war with the 18th division as
a brigade commander
The majority Of the returning Ohio
troops on the Maui are from Cincin-
natl and Canton. All are from the
37th division and have seen service
since last June when they were sta
toned in the Vosges region. At the
time OF the armistice signing they
were stationed in Belgium. having
forced crossed of the, Scheldt.
The Saith and 34Sth field artillery,
fifty officers and 2,70S men from
Camps Sherman, Funston, Lewis and
Dodge arrived at Camp Merritt today,
having reached port yesterday on the
AGuitania They will be returned to
the camps from which they were mob
ilized probably in week or two. =
The other organizations arriving on
the Aquitania went to Camp Mills,
Dix and Upton to be cleaned up" be-
fore being sent to their initial camps.
They were: S5th division headquar-
ters and headquarter troops; 1e6th
field artillery; 169th infantry brigade
headquarters; saith field artillery;
134th field artillery detachments;
Il 9Th ammunition train detachment;
|1S5th field artillery detachment; 112th
engineers detachment; 115th infantry
companies F. G., IT, K, I, l., M; 146th
infantry medical and camp detach-
ments; 337th infantry, field and staff;
92nd base hospital; 40th base hos
pital unit; two casual companies and
tninety-eight casual officers.
The men of the 363rd and 364th
regiments on the Siboney are among
the first troops of the 91st (Wild
West) division 10 arrive in this coun-