New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
8 Transports
Bring 6,983
Overseas Men
Two Fetch Back Vanguard
of First Division, the
First of A. E. T. to Ar
rive on the Firing Line
Mercy Shown in Mid-Sea
Graf Waldersee Turns Back
to Get Boy on Freighter
Who Needed a Surgeon

Eight transports, carrying $3.50
troops of the various branches in over
seas service, arrived here yesterday.
Two Of them, the Orizaba and the Pas
torres, brought back the vanguard Of
the famous 1st Division, the first
American combat troops on the firing
line in Europe and the last to leave
The Orizaba carried 1900 men and
the Pastores lab. The other vessels
were the Graf Waldersee, with 1859
officers and enlisted men on board; the
Iowan, with 900; tie Mallory, with
$50; the Santa Malta, with 36s; the
Santa Leonora, with ESQ, and the Peer
less, with "a. All the ships came from
Brest except the Peerless, which put
out from ST. Nazaire.
1t was the last voyage of the Graf
Waldersee as a troopship running un-
der the interAllied flag, and she wound
up her final Homecoming with a deed
of charity. Four days after putting
out from Brest, on August Is, the Graf
Waldersee caught a wireless from the
United States Shipping Board freighter
Liberty Clio calling for medical as
sistance. There was ffteen-year-old
boy from Boston on board, said the
message, suffering from blood poison.
and unless aid was provided imme-
diately he would die.
Surgeon Saves Rov,s Tffa
Lieutenant Commander A S. Cake.
executive officer of the waldersee,
found he had passed the Clio two hours
before, but ordered the ship turned
about, flashing to the Clio it was COM
ing. The boy, Archibald Beele, was
lowered over the side and taken on
board the Waldersee, where an opera
ton was at once performed by the
ships surgeon, Lieutenant Commander
r. A. Toulon. Upon his arrival here
yesterday the surgeon said the boy
would recover.
One officer, Lieutenant Fred Roy
Munger, Of the 4th Engineers. was re-
explained that he had resented an in
suit to army officers made by the pro-
prietor of a cafe in Brest Among
those returning on the vessel was Cap
tain R. L, Pemberton. Of Albany,
y. T., who was originally attached to
the 56th Infantry and then went with
the Second Division. He won the Croix
de Guerre at Blanc Mont and a palm
for continuing in battle after being
wounded.
One of the regular units on board
the lowan was the 304th Field Re-
mount Squadron, composed Of four Off
GERS and 13l enlisted men, under COM
mand of Lieutenant Thomas J Ste
vens, of Woodland, Cal The renount
men, with their headquarters in the
Ioul sector, looked after the bringing
of gassed and injured horses from the
lighting lines to hospitals for treat
ment.
Saved Thousands of Horses
These men saved thousands of horses
Tor the Allied governments Most of
the men were rangers from Texas and
the Western states, one OF their num-
Der, Corporal Miguel Sabadra. from
AIouquerque, N. M, being regarded as
one OF the best horsemen in the coun-
try.
I'm through now" said sabadra
Yesterday Those French horsesN
they gave me my fill Of them, and I'll
never ride another horse again.
Lieutenant Thomas 0. Walsh, of Ell
Paso, an officer of the unit. told how
thousands OF horses were auctioned of
by the government at Wingore. Ger
many. at $500 each for the best and
half this price for the mediocre kind.
The French had the first preference. he
said, and the Poles second. The Ger
mans, too, he said, were anxious to
purchase the horses because OF scar
city Of the animals on their farms.
Skylarking was responsible for an
accident to practical joker on board
the Santa Malta when she docked at
Rose, of Caldwell, Idaho, of Casual
Company 1888. He is in the ships
hospital with the big toe off his right
foot. Rose went into the butcher shop
and playfully slapped the butcher on
the shoulder. The cleaver with which
the butcher was chopping meat dropped
on Roses toe and cut it off
The Santa Leonora brought back the
287th Company, Military Police, in
which has been doing duty in Antwerp.
On board the Mallory, which carried
ten nurses n addition TO officers and
enlisted men, was Private BENJAMIN F..
Billor, who with two comrades is al
legged to have killed a guard on Feb
ruary l6, near Gievres, France. The
two other men received life sentences.
but Billor is believed to be mentally un-
balanced and is being brought here for
observation.
Brings Men of the 1st
The Pastores returned With nineteen
officers and thirty men of the advance
party Of. the 1st Division. On board
also was Wilbur Forrest. CORRESPONDENT
Of The New York Tribune. with hjs
wife and two children Edgar. three
years old, born in London. and Yvonne.
one year old, born an Brittany. Major
Charles s Coulter, of The Providence
) Journal another passenger, edited
The Bridgehead Sentinel" PAPER IS
sued by the A E. +. at Coblenz.
Caravan Found Lost Airrnan
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