The sun., 1919-04-01
FAR WESTERN BOYS
BACK FROM FRANCE
Pacific Coast Draftees Who
Fought All Summer Re-
turn on SibOney.
BRING MANY MEDALS
Battled at st. Mihiel, In the
Argonne and at
Ypres.
BRING MANY MEDALS

1t was the vanguard OF the division
that boasts, as all Yankee divisions do
when they talk about themselves In the
presence of men OF other divisions. OF
getting one Congressional Medal. twen-
ty-two Distinguished Service Crosses and
eleven French War Crosses.
They come from California, Oregon.
Alaska, Nevada. Utah. Ida
ho. Montana and Wyoming, and they
talked with half-humorous manner of
their experiences. They give proper
credit to the exploits Of these effete East
ern divisions, such as the Twenty-sev.
enth, but you know the breezy West
Sailed Last June.
The particular detachments of lean
and lofty Pacific coasters that got In by
the Siboney belong to the Third Bat
talon of the 363d Infantry and the
364th Infantry, in all 500 officers, COM
nissoned and non-commissioned. and
1890 men. You can take from them and
from the records that they helped con-
siderably to lick Herr Hohenzollern's
men.
They sailed away shostily without
cheers or beers late In June and were
the first, so some OF them assert, of the
National Army to get seriously into the
game. They were, and are, the first big
contingent of Far Western drafted boys
to get back and they would like every
body to know that volunteers are no bet
ter than drafted men, especially II they
happen to come from the Pacific slope.
The Ninety-frst went into action
after six weeks training In France as
part OF the first army in tho first i'm
portant American offensive at st.
Mihiel. They were at the front In the
Argonne on September IS and kept on
hghting there until October II. The
division rustled along eight miles into
the German trench system, losing more
than a thousand officers and men killed
and about 5000 wounded.
Marshal Foct. so the men OF the d.
vision who arrived yesterday say. re-
marked that he would Just have to
Rave those Western boys to wind up
the war. and he ordered them to Bel
GUM to join the Army Of Liberation
under King Albert.
They were In the Ypres offensive. with
the French on one side and the British
on the other. and when they crossed the
scheldt and captured Audenrade the
lDOuSdIluS SeiBIdIS tHeg lIDcTdltu
found out for the first time that the
United States OF the Pacific coast was in
the war righs up TO the hilt The Nine
ty-first crossed the Scheldt on pontoon
bridges built by their own engineers and
were just about ready to march to Ber-
Lin when the doggoned armistice came.
The Ninety-frst was with King Albert
VIXEN he reentered BRUSSELS and also was
with the allied troops when they marched
into AK la ChapelIe. The division cap
tured 1850 prisoners. 400 machine guns
much heavy artillery and some tanks
BE sides the decorations mentioned above
the division got nineteen Belgian War
Crosses and one French Military Medal
also several French and Belgian brides
Thr troops went away under command
or Major Gen. William II. Johnston Aid
returned under Lieut.. Col. Lucius c.
Bennett OF the Regulars. who regrettei
that he could not recall the name Of the
man who had won the Congressional
Medal.
Interned Actress Back.
The French liner La Lorraine brought
oS7 soldiers and S96 cabin passengers,
chiefly civilians, including Miss Maude
Burke OF 81 East 123d street, who was
informed in Austria all through the war
She Is a movie actress and went out
with a Hungarian film company.
She had little TO complain about
She said that at an internment camp
In Austria where there we're about $50
American and English n Spanish COM
mittee came to investigate stories Of
brutality and found that the prisoners
had gone to the Vienna races Where
upon there was an international smile.
nd Ire Erannh n hack
from managing a soldiers and sailors
club Mt Tours financed by Rodman Wan
amaker, Mrs. Carrel, wife OF Major
Alexis Carrel OF the Rockefeller Insti.
tute, returned wearing the uniform Of
the French Red Cross and a Croix de
Guerre given to her for her work as
the head OF the Ambulance Monsieur
Carrel." She will Join her husband in
his professional work here.
Lieut.. John A. Dix OF the 3l0th Field
Artillery, grandson OF the civil war Gov
ernor OF this State. who made famous a
phrase about shooting on the spot any
body whe hauled down the American
flag, went to France in July and became
liaison officer. He will resume his
duties with the Transoceanic Finance
and Commerce Corporation at SO Wall
street.
Mrs. Natalie Ingram wore the uni
form of Red Cross nurse. On Good
Friday last year she was In the Church
of St. Gervais when II WAS smashed by
a shell from the German super-gun.
She was dug out with broken leg and
other injuries that kept her in Paris
until recently.
The troopship Maui brought a.e47 Of
ticers and men, including sixty-three Ill
and wounded. A successful operation
for appendicitis was performed IN the
trip. The Alaskan. from ST. Naxcire,
landed 2.2i6 officers ana men In COM
mand of Major r. B. Butterfeld OF
Arkansas. who got to France too late
to take an active part in the war
The Cunarder Orduna, from Liverpool
had only a few military folk aboard.
Thirty war brides. who expect to meet
their American husbands In this city.
and thirty midshipmen OF the British
navy, bound for San Francisco to the
training ship LAvenir, were passengers.
Others aboard were Bishop w. F. An
derson of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Ohio. returning from n trip through
France and England. and Lady Garden.
widow OF Sir Lionel Garden. vormer
British Ambassador TO Mexico, who will
stop at the home of her brother. Robert
Lefferts OF East Moriches. L. I.
Col T. C. Clarke. consulting engineer
OF this city, back from France. where he
was helping In the American Transport
Service. said that eight German steam
ships recently taken over by the Allies
would not be ready to bring troops this
way until the first week in April. After
they arrive on this side they will 20 into
dry dock and be fitted out to carry a
maximum complement.
The Leviathan. which may get In to-