The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-25
Men Of 341st Field Artillery
Make Rapid Getaway
From Germany.
TWO WEEKS ON JOURNEY
Newark Private Who Captured
10 Germans Returns
on RadnOr.

men or the 34Ist were probably the most
Joyous of all the rejoicing 1e,455 eoldiers
who swept into Brooklyn and Hoboken
yesterday on four great transports.
Their release from the monotony Of
duty in Germany came as a sudden sur
prise. The time between the arrival OF
orders at divisional headquarters and
the time the 341st Field Artillery was
jumping into trains was almost negligi-
Die. From Saturday. May 10, to the
following Monday the trains wero headed
for Brest. Then came a halt at Brest
from Monday to Friday whilo the paper
work. Of the division was gone over.
Then the boys piled into the Agamem-
non. formerly a German liner, and were
ferried across the Atlantic In eight days.
Tho units aboard the "Aggie," as che
was christened for the sixteenth time by
tho sixteenth load of soldiers She has
carried. almost all being Of the sun
flower Division. the 341st Field Artillery,
81 officers and 1889 men; s14th Am
nnunition Train. IS officers and 1,161
men; 340th Field Artillery, detachment
Batteries and B, Supply Company d.
veterinary, medical and ordnance de-
taohments. 2s officers and 646 men;
s14th Sanitary Train. 46 officers and S24
mon, casual officers and convalescents.
Trained by Gen. Wood.
The division. trained by Major-Gen.
Leonard Wood at Camp Funston, Kan
sas, takes in units from most OF the mid
western States. the 341st Artillerymen
being from Colorado. 1t saw service at
st Mihiel and in the Arsonne.
Among the casual officers on board
was Capt. Walter A Davenport, New
York newspaper man who went over as
private, obtained a commission in
l,.sr 49, a -tkA1
fhierry with the 111th Infantry,
was wounded at Flsines whils charging
machine gun nest with two men. re-
turned to his regiment on the eve of the
Jump or" In the Argonne fghting to
md promotion waiting. and went
through fifteen days OF terrific fighting
Another New York man was Lieut.
Charles w. Downs. formerly a photog-
rapher. who used his art in France and
took action photos OF the storming of
machine gun nests. hand to hand fight
ing and other cloeeups.
A passenger who didn't mind in the
least the fact that he had no right on
board was Leon Roberts, now 16 but
only IL when he came home from school
one day at Lens and found that a Ger
man airplane had dropped bomb on
his home wiping out family and dwelling
simultaneously Since that time Leon
n,
Jobs for the British and made himself
useful to the Americans. The particu-
lar Americans he ran into were the men
OF the 165th Infantry. the old Sixty
ninth, who showed him some tricks with
the butt end of a rife that were Lneal
descendants OF the manual OF arms Of
the shillalah.
1t was in one OF the wild scrimmages
OF this New York regiment that Leon
Urn fNFN l1V
which struck hirp In the neck. After
he got out of the hospital he adopted
the c Battery OF the 341st. Now George
Hark, who is a farmer In Gypsum Kan.
when he isn't soldering. wants to adopt
him. but Leon was sent to Ellis Island
yesterday for various grave matters of
red tape TO be gone through.
Those on the America.
On the transport America was Brig
Gen. Charles E. Kllburne, who was
wounded by fragments OF a bursting
shell. but recovered and returned to
France after treatment in New York
The America had aboard seven OH
GERS and sixty-two men OF the Fifty
eighth Field Artillery Brigade, COM
manoed by Brighten. Henry d. Todd.
Jr.; hfty-six officers and 1,442, men of
the 122d Field Artillery complete, I'M
der Col. Milton Foreman OF Chicago;
the 1924 Field Artillery. complete with
hfty-n'ne officers and 1,555 men, Under
Col. Charles G. Davis OF Geneseo, III.
the l24th Field Artillery complete, Nifty
Two officers and 1.f49 men with Lieut.
Col Joseph a. Rogers commanding the
1Osth Sanitary Train with twenty-one
ofhcers and 5S5 men, and eight officers
and 959 men OF Brest Convalescent De-
tackments 256 to 263. There were also
twenty-five casual officers on this ship.
Most OF these troops were also OF the
Eighty-ninth Division.
Cen Todd said his brigade lost $50
men killed or wounded He himself was
hit in the lip by a fragment OF a shell.
The organization fred 5000 tons OF
metal. or nearly $4,000 rounds Of am
nunition at the enemy during a sixty
kilometre advance.
The troopship Santa Teresa unwit-
t!ngiy gave the 1870 officers and boys
aboard her yesterday an extra ride. She
came up the bay and sauntered over TO
Hoboken, where Capt. Walter Bernard,
in charge of transport docking. shooed
her over to Pier 3, Bush Terminal. where
she started 20 dock on one side of the
pier. didn't make it. backed out, tried
the other side without success and finally
came to berth on the original side.
"Lost" Man Responds.
Major Harris p. Ralston, a go'f cham
pion hailing from New Orleans, COM
mander of the 104th Engineers. was
troop commander aboard. Everything
went smoothly in the debarkation, but
when tho roll call of Convalescent De-
tachnent 200 was read Sergeant Hurley
T. Bailey caused CONSERVATION by loudly
answering Here" when his name was
called. The officers of the detachment
had papers proving that. after a long
search and investigation, Sergeant
Bailey had been officially pronounced
lost at sea on May 16.
Then there was some head scratching.
during which 1t was suggested by some
body that the easiest way out OF tho
difficulty was TO chuck Sergeant Hurley
i. Bailey OF the pier with his XII
strapped TO his back-any soldier will
tell you that kit. especially a kit which
has been lugged all over France. is the
epitome OF heaviness. But Sergeant
Bailey turned down the suggestion SO
nrmly that they finally let him 60 along
with the rest Of the crowd.
Sergeant Bailey protested that he
hadn't been of the boat during the whole
trip He added with emphasis that tho
paging system aboard must have been
ridiculous.
On the Radnor which came In In tho
morning, with 1909 soldiers from PAUL. !
lac, was Private Edward Rischnnan az
Company /. who arrived with the rest |
OF the 3l2th Infantry OF the Seventy
eighth Division. Rischman, who lives In |
Newark wandered into German dug
out after creeping through No Man's
Land and was ordered by a German SOL |
der to surrender