The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-31
.AQUITANIAARRIVES
WITH6,691 TROOPS
220 Civilians, Including 20
IA War Wives, Aboard Big
Cunard Steamship.
MORE ROMANCES TOLD
i. II. Sothern, Julia Marlowe
and Will Irwin Discuss
Conditions in Europe.
MORE ROMANCES TOLD

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Meet. arrived yesterday on schedule. as
she usually does, despite rampant comb
ers on the last leg of her course from
Brest. She carried b.se1 military and
semi-rnilitary folk. the wives OF seventy
soldiers and naval men and ISL civilians.
Although separated from his bride be-
cause of military necessity during the
"trip. there was not y bridegroom aboard
any happier than Private Lester Dringer
OF the United States Quartermaster's
Department Mrs. Dringer, who was
Miss Catherine PROC Of London, was a
saloon passenger, and the rank of her
husband compelled him to stay in third
cabin with casual company. Military
rules prevented her from travelling with
him and his gallant spirit would not
have let her 70 otherwise than she
did anyhow.
Mrs Dringer became acquainted with
her soldier in London, where she was
employed in the British War Office be-
cause of her knowledge OF French. Ital-
Ian, German and Russian. After q lit
he while the soldier learned that the
young woman was born on the Fourth
Of July, and this helped fan the fame
Of his patriotic courtship. They also
found that they had both been informed
by Germans.
Red Cross workers, who are fond OF
encouraging sentiment, brought Mr.. and
Mrs. Dringer together Just after the
Aauitania locked. and then the workers
eurned around and looked the other way
TO prevent the bride from looking en-
oarrassed. Then pringer talked with
hts sister. Mrs. j. o. Foote OF as5 ST.
Nicholas avenue, whom he had not seen
Tor eight years. that being his term of
eervtce in the ranks of Uncle Sam,
mostly in foreign places.
Treated with scorn by Germans.
Mrs. Dringer is the daughter of a re-
Nired London merchant of Haldane
Lodge, 81 Kings road. Ealing. and a few
weeks before the war went to Berlin to
brush up on her German, attending q
high school there. She was informed
and says that although she was not
harmed she was treated with scorn,
everybody around her. including teachers.
heaping abuse upon the English. She
said Ambassador Gerard had assisted
many poor young Englishwomen with
money. After two months Of contemptu-
Gus treatment a group Of Ergliehwomen,
IN which she WAS included. were ex-
changed for a like number of German
women in England. She went immedi-
Ntely into the service OF the War Office
where" she said triumphnntly. 81 met
Mr.. Dringer. I am sure / shall like
America and the Americans. and am
proud that my birthday Is on the Fourth
Of July"
+. Oringer went out to the Philippines In
1e11 with the Nineteenth Regulars. He
was assigned to the Fifteenth Infantry
and went to China lie got his dis
charge In 1914. and q month later was
a passenger by the German steamship
Kleis, bound eventually for Southamp-
TON. War began while the ship was
nearing Penang, Straits Settlements, and
20 avoid capture by the British cruiser
Tiger she informed In an East Indian
Dutch port.
The German skipper had s10.o00, 900
aboard, and during the chase by tho
Tiger, which finally was baked by a
fog. he had the gold taken from the
strongroom and put out on deck near
the rail. ordering his men to cast II
overheard should the Rleis be taken.
The German captain limited the food of
the passengers. mostly English and
Brench, Dringer being the only American
aboard. At the end OF eighteen days of
short rationing all hands were taken
ashore. after they had appealed to the
American Consul. The Dutch authorize.
sent him. with the Others 10 Rotterdam
and he went thence TO England, Joining
the army again when Uncle Sam entered
the war.
HaJor-Gen. Kennedy in Charre,
In charge Of all the troops aboard was
MAJOR Gen. Chase w. Kennedy, COM
manding the Eighty-fifth Division, n
detachment OF which, made up mostly of
drafted men from Michigan and wis
consin, was aboard The division landed
10 Liverpool and went thence to Cher
bourg and Havre. 1t was never In action
~ a division. but furnished many men
~ replacement troops to every division
on the American front These troops,
Gen Kennedy said. were priced AZ
lighters. the General more than oncs
receiving this message from battle COM
nnanders, There are none better. Send
us more" One regiment of the division,
the SS9th Infantry, composed OF en-
gineers and an ambulance CORDS, went
70 Russia. where they are still In service
The Brigade Headquarters OF the
1Seth Field Artillery, with Brig Gen
Beverly F. Browne. also arrived The
brigade Is made up OF men from Cali
6ornia and the north Pacific States who
have been across nine months and seen
heavy hghting in the Argonne After
the armistice they went through Belgium
20 Luxemburg and finally TO duty south
Of Coblenz.
- A small party of III and wounded men
Of the ie5th Infantry. the old Sixty.
ninth. returned under Capt Charles
Murphy. other .acppHc ands ahosrd were
the 347th Field Artillery OF twenty-s sir
officers and 1855 men. the s4sth Field
Artillery OF twenty-six officers and !. 32a
men. part of the 14bth Infantry. fourteen
officers and LOTT men, and ninety-ons
casual officers OF all services.
Lieut.. Irving Wolfe of l21 Yves,
Fourth street, recently an Instructor In
an aviation school across the soa, was
assigned 30 see that nobody sloped by
sea In airplane with any of the brides
He was formally made commander ii
c;iief of all OF them. even tho limited few
that had husbands aboard. None had
oyer had n glimpse Of the main entrance
90 America before they got into the Mar.
rows yesterday morning.
Lieut.. Summers Wife Aboard.
-. In the bevy was q girl from Dublin
once named Iris Bleailey and now the
wife of Lieut. +. NJ. Sumner of the
United States Navy and resident OF
Lakeside. Cal She said she was mighty
anxious 20 know when she would see
him again. She learned that he was
ptill ABOARD the United States naval YES.
ri Ophir and that the Ophir ought ts
b somewhere near New York about
pow, as letters to her are addressed &c
the care Of the New York postmaster.
With the unmartial who landed wer,