Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
the Edward Luckenbach at New

the Edward Luckenbach at New
York.
The Dakotan, which sailed from
st. Nazaire on May 1e, brought
1856 men chiefly from the S15th
Infantry. OF these 412 were Phila-
delphians and most of the others
were from Eastern Pennsylvania
counties. Units aboard were the
S04th Divisional Supply Train Head
quarters and Sanitary Detachments
and Companies A to +, inclusive,
304th Mobile Ordnance Repair shop,
305th Clothing Unit, scattered; 18TH
Company, Second Regiment, Air
Service Mechanics; 54th Base Hos
pital; seth Base Hospital; 18TH
Military Police Company and Med
ical Department.; 310th Field Artil-
lery Detachment. scattered; 3loth
Infantry, Sd Battalion Headquar-
ters; Sanitary Detachment and Com
panies l. and NJ, and 6sSth DIS
charges.
The Edward Luckenbach carried
2,267 men. included in the 81 tn
Field Artillery and the S12th Ma
chine Gun Battalion. The location oil
the latter unit aboard this trans
port cleared up a three-day "mys-
terry" Originally the War Depart
ment had stated that the Slzth
Battalion was on the transport VIZ
ginian, but when the Virginian
reached Newport News. last Sunday,
it was found that it carried the
311th Battalion instead.
Get Big Rccction
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the men of the Dakotan when
they landed for a large number oil
the men aboard were Quaker City
lads. Then, too, it was the first
troopship to land commanded by a
Philadelphia officer. Major Francis
" Lloyd. of the 315th Infantry. be-
ing in charge of the returning SOL
diers.
AS the Dakotan came up the river
the men aboard were given a rous-
ing reception from thousands of
people who gathered all along both
sides of the river front.
According to the officers. there
was hardly a man aboard the troop
ship. but who at one time or another
in the gigantic struggle had lost a
bosom friend-had seen the sharer
of his billet. food and fate, slip
silently from his side.
Hatred of Boche Intense
Hatred of the Boche was intense
among the returning fighting men,
1t was occasioned largely, too.
through an inhuman attack by the
airmen that cost a number of lives
among the wounded of the S16th
Infantry. According to several of the
military policemen aboard this was
a deliberate massacre from the
clouds.
On September 80 one of the Boche
aviators came over the lines and
dropped five shells upon the hos
pital of the sanitary detachment, at
intervals of five minutes between
shells. The wounded who could flee
managed to get out safely, but those
who had no power of locomotion
were slaughtered on their cots.
The 10Th Division played an impor-
tant part in the final offensive which
won the war On it's arrival in France
il was sent to a training area where
it remained for several weeks in in
tensive training. On September 10,
Major Lloyd recalled it relieved a
French division which had been
holding Sector 304. On September
25 it got into the big Allied drive,
and kept up a steady advance prac-
tically until hostilities ended on No
vember IL.
1t advanced through Harcourt
Malincourt, Monfaucon, Mantiliois
and the Madeleine Farm, and on
September 80 it was relieved and
sent to a more quiet section. On
October 20 the division relieved the
29th Division, made up of New Jer-
sey and Maryland National Army
men. 1t was in action from that
time until November II, its advance
ending at Neville Farm.
Many Harrisburg friends and rela-
tives were in Philadelphia to witness
the landing of the Dakotan. Major
Samuel w. Fleming, 104 South
street, is one Harrisburg officer who
was expected to be aboard.
Troops of the Seventy ninth Di-
vision will march in a parade in
Philadelphia on June s. This decision
was reached yesterday by Governor
Sproul. To-day Mayor Smith will
obtain, it is expected. the formal con-
sent of Major General Joseph E.
Kuhn, commander of the Liberty Di-
vision, who arrived in New York on
the Kroonland.
In anticipation of the consent of the
General. the plans for the parade are
being matured as only a week re-
mains Only the eastern Pennsylva-
mia men will march.