The sun., 1919-02-02
SIBONEY ARRIVES
WITH 1885 TROOPS
46th Coast Artillery Returns
Without Having Had
Taste Of War.
D. s. GOAL OF PRUSSIANS
Officers Want to Escape Ger
man Taxes and Make
Money Here.
D. s. GOAL OF PRUSSIANS

.After enduring q distant ana mos,
tnntalizing view OF New York city for
about twelve hours. 1885 officers and
men OF the A. Z. F. trotted down the
sangplanks Of the transport Siooney
yesterday morning and once more trod
the cobblestones-soil is scarce In Ho-
ooken-of their native land.
The Siboney got into port too late on
Friday to come UP the river to Hoboken.
Do the men on board saw a whole lot OF
shither Staten Island by moonlight
whole lot more than they wanted to, ac-
eording to some candid soldiers.
On board the transport were the For
ty-ffth Regiment Of Coast Artillery, SO
officers and 1888 men the 3o9th AM
munition Train, 90 officers and ses men !;
Batteries c and D OF the 339th Field
Artillery and Casual Company No. 20 OF
New York, made up Of ITO men.
A Real Legion OF Nations.
On one thing. at least, the men OF the
yorty-ffth and the men OF the 3o9th
are agreed--the war had no right to
nivver out that way before they had
chance to see what II was like. The
yorty-nfth. which has Americans In 1t
from every State In the Union except
Delaware, and also Chinese, Japanese.
Mexican and Indian ecrappers, is sure
somebody rubbed rabbits foot the
wrong way and linked the war. for 9TH
erwise why should 1t peter out just
nineteen days after they landed In
France? And the sosth. consisting OF
Ohio. Kentucky. Indiana and Illinois
men, is sorer yet, for the 3O9th headed
for France In plenty Of time to get into
the flight. and landed In Sydney, Nova
Scotia, with influenza raging among the
men. Four companies were taken of
after thirty-eight men had died, and
eight more succumbed at Sydney. They
finally got to France but too late to get
into action.
The commander of the Forty-hfth Is
Leut-Col. ]. T. H. o'Rear, and with
him was Major Robert II. Hazeltine.
who before Joining the Forty-fifth was
q National Guard officer connected with
the Eighth Coast Defence outfit of New
York city since 1918.
PPussians Want to Come Here.
The United States has to fear a whole
sale rush into this country OF Prussian
oficers after the war. according to Major
Monson Morris, another passenger, who
gave his address as the Knickerbocker
Club. After seeing much fighting with
the 8esth Infantry, which was the Fiji
teenth New York, the negro regiment
headed by Col. Hayward. Major Norris
had the dubious pleasure Of commanding
a camp for captured German officers at
Richelieu. France.
They are the most arrogant. i'm
pudent. contemplate and rneanest bunch
OF men I've ever had the misfortune TO
meet" Major Morris said. And al
most every one Of them was planning,
even then, when the war had not ended,
10 dodge the heavy taxes which they
knew Germans must face at home and
come to this country to make money
They kicked about everything they
could think Of, and they were sinsularly
gifted in thinking up things The only
name not too good for them Is Prus-
SLAMS
Major Morris said that the old FIJI
teenth was cited seven times for its
bravery in action, and that Col Hay
ward had been recommended for the
Legion OF Honor. The negro troops
fought for twenty-six weeks. most OF
the Fourth French Army Corps. an or
ganization hastily put together OF
French. American and British troops
when the Fifth British army broke.
"War Bread' for Prisoners.
Seven men formerly held in German
prison camps were on board the vessel
One. F. f. Paul OF Boston, Mass,
brought with him to back up his story OF
wretched rations a piece OF black bread
which he said had been found on analy-
sis to consist Of powdered bone, saw
dust, barley and potato Feelings.
Another re!ec-ned prisoner was Jacob
fedinsKy. ne:vsboy who formerly dealt
out 'wuxtries' at Fourth avenue and
Fourteenth street Prisoners at Rastatt,
he said. had their wounds dressed once
in two or three weeks.
Others a board were Henry A. kapit, a
former New York lawyer who fought
with the Fifty-fourth Regiment Private
James Williams of Company NJ, 357th
Regiment. of 7is Malone, street, Brook
Ign. who vas gassed In the Argonne and
Private William Hanson OF Company d,
316th Infantry. whose home is at s34
Hart street, Brooklyn, who was wounded
in the leg on September %.
Private Benjamin Mitchell OF the S43d
Field Artillery, who lives at 1913 linton
avenue. The Bronx, brought home with
him the Croix de Guerre awarded TO
him by Premier Clemenceau for discov-
ering German information post. While
on guard duty at Chateau Thierry a
German crept up to him and bayonetted
him In the back OF the neck. Unable
10 move his head. Mitchell fred his re-
volver back over his shoulder and got
the German.