New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Two Transports With 1900
Landed at Hoboken; All
of "All-American'' Unit
To Be Home by Friday
Pershing Is Due Sept. 8
Date of Fifth Avenue Pa.
rade Is Set Tentatively as
Second Day Following

ing
The historic LIST Division, selected
By General Pershing for the most diff
fcult tasks of the American contin-
gent in France, will be at home in it's
entirety by September 5.
Two shiploads OF the fighting men
morning, while bands played and flags
waved, just as they did when the men
sailed away more than two years ago.
The waving flags and active bands
were especially remarked by the re-
turning soldiers, since theirs was the
only division to sail away openly, with
music and floating colors.
Pershing Due September 8
The transports Orizaba and Pas
torres carried nearly 1900 officers and
men Of the division. On September 3
the transport Freedom will bring an
other large body OF the regulars home
and on the two days following the re-
nlainder Of the division Will have been
landed General Pershing and his
staff, who Will sail on the Leviathan,
are expected to arrive about Septem-
ber S.
The story of the deeds of the list
has been written in statistics that
never Will be forgotten by members of
that body.
The normal strength Of the division
was 21.000 men.
The total casualties of the division
during the WAT we're 1882
The statistics. more than the ! 400
decorations worn bv the returnjnp
men. r-ove that Genera! Pershioo used
the mn Of this division. with which
re was most closely associated on the
AeX.c~n Dorder, IS the shock troops
'.4-latS iOi0es'
inii'ne" RAINS Nehiiea
Daring the Two years the division
vs. seeing actual fighting in France
rs 1An@s were being thinned by enemy
guns and relied with replacement
troops. Slightly more than 10000 re-
Il-' Nen' troops took their places in
the LIST during the days il was pound
in- IFS WY through the German lines
pom 'ne BOWS OF ice TWO transports
''a' carried the AFst contingent Of the
eA's'oH -p the pay yesterday were
t.'A1l .-e WORDS ne war Is over.
l4- IS mere.
W. Hsnefai FdWafc t NcIlack-
Ill., VINO ed the 'ightlng men into Ger.
I'~-y .Anleal4teiE ai,er the SIGNING OF
'n7 nis'ice, gu-ped ard hesltated
-NA- when asked TO say some
lA' a."@' t"e men or ms COMMAND
ne4r are no words TO -eu what
to- If the lst Dlvislon,' he said at
las. /, was the haQpest moment OF
u t-e wrcu Genera tsrshlng as
great. Bat please don call TINS the
'hesicat division or the 'hard lighting
or heroic dlvision.' Its the all-Amerl-
can ar SION, made up OF men from
ever state IN the Union
S.,e Yo,o4ea ~ Ri,tror.
So -,
ne General ana ms staTf, along WIN
the o-.cers Who are to make UP the ad-
80 zee ol al d j. : - 10
wv - ~ ~ 80 tean
d. ot':e 10 nay ia ..a' p r5fu oeel'
H., 80 10y len a. 11-u ad a 80; -; ~ e.
Tele' seT =, 1@l 'eis "eio oPsleu -
~ o. me 0IN so" VIII. - W. 'l.e
mayor Oohlii zee ol Nc-eolne W
lomeeomlng soldiers IN arranging the
Ieisnine homecoming programme
conference or the aqVa'ce oNlcers
ana 1epresen tatives OF local commit
tees tnAt are handllng the homecoming
Plans vas set tor uesday AFTERNOON al
tne bitmore. ne tentative gaze OF
the parade on tlfth Avehce-Hept
me plan 10 march down ruin iAVenue
lNs'ea@ Oh up as oINer leV"In 81
or. ol@ls nave cone was 4cceb.eu oy Lleu-
's.l' OD.o"e' au' -. So 80
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toN ana other oelalis O. Inc celeo,aCioa
a. a. INK ~, "a tta! wiz pe wo'he1 1, W.
me HLlsnlas touches WIZ No.
Ne auoeo 10 Inc programme !ot r el'neI
1 1 l orr or "asnlhsCon ul'.il HeHeial
comfortable wirelessing distance of the
c4ty-
NO Admirers OF Germans
Members Of the list, from the COM
nander Of the division on down to the
privates, brought back stories OF I'M
peasant relations with the Germans,
poth before the signing OF the armlstce
and later, when the dlv'slon was
part OF the American army or occu-
palIon
me american soIdlers admire Ihe
s aus lor 'nelr tecnnlcal aollloy ou,
~ Vnen as men ana women, sala
r+;a ~ ~ hain '1,lo 80. -
csoe: ~ s.,, D"u W. ~. Car
TX Inc uolia'' ou' INC ,,.',l s
tbat ~ Tha a' +S;nn thav did
81 S"l ne ne mias ,ntn ,ss cor wv
mercisliza Tho iran cross
The FOOD sitna+ion ;s vo,v bad in
GERMANY All fbe Germans annear to
be nndernonr;shed or thas veins of
imnrnnarlv haianced ra+ions We we're
greeted hv many children in the streets