The sun., 1919-03-10
981 MORE N. Y. MEN
OF 9TH REACH PORT
Get Grand Greeting in Rain
and VIII Be in Big Parade
of Division.
1913 ARMY NURSES ARRIVE
Nieuw Amsterdam Carries AL
together 1920 Troops, Be-
sides 355 Civilians.

uouknDoyS WHO Will tuIH OuI Will lhe
Twenty Division on March 25
got to Hoboken yesterday on the liner
Nieuw Amsterdam through rain and
/ mist that almost hid the Statue of Lib
erty from them. but did not affect their
jubilant greeting of the old girl. The
New Workers., 27 officers and 954 men,
had hundreds OF friends standing out in
the rain in Hudson Park, short dis
| lance from and within easy sight OF the
ship. many with signs WELDON ing certain
organizations and individuals.
As the soldiers marched from the IIol-
land-America pier five blocks south to
Government Pier ?, the crowds cheered.
The troops boarded boats that took them
TO the railroad station in Jersey City.
where they got on a train that landed
them at Camp Merritt. They will stay
there until after the parade and will
| then be sent to Camp Upton for dis
charge
There were all told aboard the Nieuw
Amsterdam 1900 officers and men and
555 civilian passengers who embarked at
Rotterdam and Plymouth The soldiers
were in charge of Major Raphael y.
Eagan Of Newburgh. commander OF the
Third Battalion, 107th Infantry. whose
adjutant is Lieut.. Charles F. Floyd Of
| al West Eleventh street. The other hat
talon officers are Capt. Albert n. Rene-
dict OF Yonkers and Lieut.. George +
Evans OF Somerville. Mass. The bat
talon went through all the hard battles
OF the Twenty-seventh Division, and was
pretty well shot up. so It was filled to
| its quota with requirements who took no
part In the conflict. and that Is why it
will give only 81 officers and 95i men to
the big parade.
Trench Raiders Beaten Back.
Corporal c. r. Henderson, White
Plains, Company l., 10Th. brought back
Distinguished Service Cross and
British military medal which ne won at
Mount KENNEL on August %. Forty
Germans tried to rush the trench that
the corporal and a squad were holding.
II was forty against eight, but the gal-
liant squad, after exhausting all their
hand grenades forced back those OF the
forty that had not been killed.
The corporal and Private George De-
iahay we're unframed. but two OF his
men were killed and the rest wounded.
Henderson originally belonged TO the old
Eleventh Regiment.
Among 1913 army nurses who got
back was a unit from Detroit in charge
of Major Walter D. Ford and seventy
Corps returning to their homes in vsri-
Gus parts OF the country. Major James
NJ. Kent of els West 10lst street who
had been with Base Hospital Q. which
at one time occupied the chateau of
Chauncey NJ. Depew. said the Ameri-
can surgeons in France we're hard to
beat.
Hugh A. Randall OF Oklahoma City
came back with eight other Y. NJ c. a
4,
sence. He said that the Y. NJ. c. A.
had spent $40, 900 for the entertainment
OF the boys of the 2Tth Division and
other military passengers who came by
the Nieuw Amsterdam.
jor Ford, who had been in France
since last July, delivered hot chocolate
to the men In the front line trenches.
He was wounded by a machine gun
bullet, gassed three times and got
piece OF shrapnel IN his left leg. He
wears the Croix de Guerre. At the
end OF his leave he will go to Serbia
and Mesopotanlia salvsging Y. NJ c. A.
supplies with the aid of fortyifve men
and fourteen motor trucks.
Capt. stanley Fargo Back.
Capt Stanley Fargo, son OF the vice
president Of the American Express
Company. who had lived in Paris for
seven years before the war. Joined the
air service OF the Signal Corps when
America entered the conflict and had
charge later OF an aerodrome at the
front.
Bishop Theodore S. Henderson OF De-
troit and the Rev. Bertrand VI. Triple,
head of the American Methodist Episco-
pal Church in Rome, came back with an
appeal to the people of America TO up
hold the hands OF our President with all
our might" They said that Europe was
wrecked, physically speaking. and liter
ally millions will starve to death In the
next few weeks II America does not get
food TO them. II food is not forthcom-
ing, they added, "excesses are bound to
break out, some OF the very worst ele-
nients will come to the top and the
fruitage OF the allied victory may be Sc
rlously endangered
The clergymen say that the masses of
Europe are looking to President Wilson
and America in truly wonderful way
and the Presidents presence In Europe
giving personal Interpretation Of his
world policy is indeed making America
the hope OF the world
Other arrivals by the liner were J. A.
Wiliinge Brantsma, formerly Of the
Dutch Red Hussars. expert horseman.
who has won more than forty prizes in
jumping contests and hopes TO arrange
for a contest at the next horse show
w. f. Gobius. former attache of the
Netherlands LegatASC at Washington
Simeon Strunsky oftfe Evening Post. c.
NJ. Wright of the New York Tribune,
the Countess de Jumilhac and her dauEh-
ter, Miss Valerie Norris Capt Edwin Fl
Cooper. once official photographer of the
Twenty sixth Division VINO hopes to ac-
company Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker on
flight across the ocean.
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