The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-27
2,46S TROOPS BACK
WITH SO WAR WIVES
Every Branch Of Service Il
Represented by George
Washington Arrivals.
WORK IN RUSSIA LAUDED
Veterans Of Archangel Front
Tell Of Stand That Curbed
Bolsheviki.

The Presidential ship George WASH
ington locked yesterday afternoon at
IIoboken with 2,46S officers and men,
SO soldiers wives and children, az
nurses, Sc welfare workers and 81 civil
lians. Among the latter was Samuel
Gompers, president OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, who was greeted by his
two sons and delegation of labor
leaders headed by Hugh Frayne general
York. Glenn E. Plumb, author of the
Plumb Plan" for railroad operation.
was also at the pier.
The troops on board were twenty
casual companies including men from
every branch OF the service, every or
sanizstlon of the American Expedition
airy Forces and veterans of every en-
gagement in which Americans particle
pated from the Vosges to Archangel. The
senior officer was Brig-Gen. ]. II. Rice,
Ordnance Department, travelling as a
casual
Gen. Rice said the lessons drawn from
the war would be of value only IL they
were not forgotten by the men now
passing from the army into civil life.
Civilians Get warming.
THE greatest Of these lessons" he
said. is that the conduct OF a great war
is not function OF the military class
alone but rests upon the whole people.
and that the whole people must in times
OF peace take an active interest in the
national military policy and be prepared
So that we may not be found wanting
when the test of war comes. 1t took
US from eighteen months to two years
to get full quantity production OF NUM-
tions, transportation facilities and sup
plies, and We know now that any war
must be fought for the first year with
whatever is on hand when 1t starts.
The men who have had military ex-
perience In any capacity and are now
returning to civil life can render an
important national service by working
for some form Of universal training. for
an effective army organization free
from politics and for the proper main
tenance OF the war material we now
have and the keeping abreast of new
developments"
Capt J. A Harzfeld, former military
attache at Archangel, gave enthusiastic
praise to the men OF the 339th Infantry
and the 3l0th Engineers. He expressed
the opinion that American Intervention
| In Russia was n decided success and said
that the Russian people, enfeebled as
they were by long years OF war. were
nevertheless making a determined re-
slstance against the Bolshevik in the
| Archangel region and that Russian
troops were now holding front line po-
sitions.
Another veteran OF the Archangel
front was Capt. Roger Lewis of the Har-
ward Club OF New York, an American
Red Cross worker. who published and
circulated the American soldiers news
paper in that sector. The paper was
called the American Sentinel, and was
printed in the plants of local Russian
newspapers with type gathered wherever
English letters could be found. Even
| after all the printing offices in the dis
! trict had been searched there was not
| enough English type to get out the paper
and Russian type was sometimes used.
Russians Trust United states.
Capt. Lewis said that the Russian peo-
| pie had great confidence in the United
States because they realized that Amer
! lea had no Interior motives In their In
PREVENTION. but they fear a general mas
sacre at the hands of the Bolsheviki
when the allied troops are withdrawn.
THE only way TO prevent wholesale
slaughter" Capt. Lewis said, and TO
remedy the present state of affairs in
| Russia is for the United States to take
| charge of the situation and see that
| stable Government is established
| Armed intervention has failed, and the
only solution OF the problem is for the
United States to guarantee credits to the
areas which have insufficient food and re-
sources and to demand in return that the
people organize a stable. peaceable Gov
| eminent"
Corporal Frank Capie, an expert vio-
linist and former leader OF the orchestra
| at Rectors, returned on the transport
| as a member OF a Marine Corps casual
| company. He Joined the ships band
| during the voyage.
Dies on Way Home.
| Sergeant Alvin Byrne OF Fort Thomas,
| Kentucky. died on the voyage OF dia-
| Kites He enlisted six days after the
| American declaration OF war and served
twenty-five months with the First Di-
vision, participating in six major and
! three minor operations.
| Second Leuts. Thomas Alexander and
living A. Gabryel, infantry, returned as
! prisoners under guard Of two other
officers The authorities at the port OF
| embarkation refused to make public the
offences charged against them.
The transport Canandaigua also
! reached port yesterday with 773 home
ward bound officers and men. including
five officers and seventy-nine men OF the
Twenty sixth Field Hospital, a detach-
ment OF the Third Ammunition Train
Headquarters and the Marine Jazz Band,
officially known as Casual Company
| 1892. The ammunition train men were
under the command OF Col. George l..
Lowell OF Leesburg, Fla. They carried
ammunition forward to the various units
of the division and during the Meuse-
Argonne operations served under fire
continuously for forty-seven days and
sustained ffty-two casualties. Almost
all have been cited for bravery,