The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23
MANY YANKEES
 ASSEMBLE AT
 ENGLISH CAMP

this picturesque old city, is again an American camp. During the war it was the principal assembly ground in England for American legionS on the way to the war. Now it is the clearing station.-f for thousands of battle-worn Americans who are on their way home They are the men who fought with the British forces.
 All the far-flung armies of the empire are contributing to this assemblage. The Americans are coming chiefly from France and the occupation forces in Germany, but large numbers are making long, CT journeys. Some have served in Palestine, some in Egypt, some, in South Africa and others in India. Many are still in the East and others are with the British forces in various parts of Russia. It is reckoned that it will be six or eight months before all can be brought to England
 Meantime, as fast as the Ameri- cans arrive in this country they are sent to Winchester and put through the process of demobiliza- tion and repatriation. Other camps here are being used to comb out Colonials who served with the Eng fish instead of with their own armies.
 The majority of the Americans who joined the British forces en- listed in Canada. Most of these are to be sent back, not to the point of enlistment, but to their homes in the States, stipulation that was generally insisted upon by Ameriacns when they volunteered their services.
 Repatriation machinery turns slowly and there are often con- siderable delays, as it frequently happens that a soldier arrives at the camp weeks before his papers filter through the devious chan nels in which they move. It is only by his papers that mans identity can be officially established Great care is exercised in this matter for, in the British army, there have been instances of soldiers ex- changing names and Identification disks.
 If an American serving with a British regiment wished to remain in England and a British comrade wanted to go to America, it would be easy enough, it was pointed out to the correspondent, for them to swap names and disks. and if the real Tommy was we'll coached and did not drop too many of his "h's", the scheme might succeed.
 After repatriation, the Ameri- cans are sent home as soon as trans ports can be provided at South ampton, which is only dozen miles away. Special sailings~ are arranged for the soldiers who are taking wives back with them
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 One husky Michigan lad now at the camp missed his chance 10 get away with the last shipload of un- married men by making sudden entry into the matrimonial state. A day or two before his transport was to sail he was spending the afternoon with an American girl he had met in Winchester She was from Patterson, N J., and he called her "Jersey."
 Well, this is good-bye," he sai! as he was about to return to camp.
 Thinking of home dimmed the girls eyes. Gee, I wish I was going too,' she exclaimed.
 ''You mean that, Kid," said the big Middle Westerner.
 'I sure do," she replied.
 Touched by her tears, he made quick decision. ''All right, come along with me-" he said, seizing her arm. He knew where a special license could be obtained, and ] few hours later they were man and wife.
 In telling the correspondent Of his romance the soldier remarked: :: 'I wouldn't leave a dog on this side of that good old Statue of Liberty" He meant no disrespect to his bride
 A special canteen for these homar ward bound soldiers has been es-