The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
MORE HEROES OF
MARINE BACK AGAIN
Nearly 10000 Men, Chiefly Of
Third Division, Arrive on
Six Transports.
GEN. HOWE AMONG THEM
More Than 10000 Men AS
signed to His Command Ow-
ing to Heavy Casualties.

Nearly 10000 homeward bound sol
dlers were landed at this port yester-
day from six transports. the largest num-
Der handled in q single day by the
Port of Embarkation stan for several
months The MadswaskA and the Pow
batan berthed at the army base in South
Brooklyn, having left Brest together on
August IL, and made the entire trip in
company. They brought the Seventy
sixth Field Artillery complete and q
number Of casual companies. The Prins
Friedrich wilhelm. Sol Navis, Huron
and Nansemond berthed at Hoboken-
The artillery regiment was assigned
10 the Third Division, and like the other
units of that organization. took part in
the hard fighting on the Marine in July,
1918, when the German push toward
Paris was halted and then turned into a
retreat. Lieut-Col. John J. Waterman
was in command OF the seventy-slxth.
succeeding Col. j. H Olmstead, who was
ordered home two weeks before the out
Of sailed.
Inc MdudNdSha WCHt " zig aooAcNhuNo
OF a feet of French fishing vessels which
she fell in with 500 miles out Of Brest.
They had been becalmed for twenty
days, had lost their position and were
short OF food and water when the trans
port hove in sight After they had sig
nailed their predicament Commander 8.
C. Rowan, skipper of the transport sen.
supplies to all the vessels OF the feet
and gave them their position.
Sam Brownies Body a-Mouldering.
The forty-fve officers aboard held q
mock funeral the afternoon before the
ship reached port, and while the artil-
ler% band played the prescribed dirge a
coffin inscribed Sam Browne. He Was
q Good Fellow While He Lasted. r. I.
P" was solemnly lowered over the side.
The officers with barred heads then d.
vested themselves OF their Sam Browne
belts which the regulations prohibit on
this side of the Atlantic.
Major-Gen. Robert L. Howe, oorn-
m6nding the Third Division. arrived on
board the PrinZ Friedrich Wilhelm with
his staff and division headquarters. The
ship also brought the Second Battalion
OF the Thirtieth Infantry, the headquar-
tiers company. supply company. medical
detachment and Batteries A and b of
II lciu ~ anu "a
Der OF smaller units of the Third Divi-
sion.
Major-Gen. How're succeeded Major
Gen Dickman ten days before the armi
stice. He said that moro than 10000
neil had been assigned to the division
during its service overseas in order to
keep the organization at its normal
strength. THAT shows how hard they
were hit in the Marne and Argonne Of
fensives," he said.
He also related another incident illus
trating another side of the activities of
the division. Shortly before the Third
left the Coblenz area, he said. a petition
signed by 10000 residents of the terri
tory occupied by the division was pre-
scented to headquarters Of the Army OF
Occupation asking that the Third be
kept in the Rhineland as long as Ameri-
can troops remained there. Both officers
and men were popular with the civilians
in the conquered territory, Gen. Howe
said.
German Bride Arrives.
Mrs. Margaret Griffin. wife of Lieut.
Kenneth Grimm Of the Seventh Machine
Gun Battalion, was the FIRST OF the Ger
man war brides to arrive in this coun-
try. She was Fraulein Rothurst Of CO.
at her house. She was met At the pier
by her husbands family. who live in
Bridgeport. Conn. Lieut. Grimm him"
self is still in Germany. Two other
brides, both French girls. were also pas
sengers on the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm.
Gen. Howe presided at the unwilling
sf' two monuments at Chateau Thierry
Just before he left France. one COM
memorating the engagements in which
the division had taken part and the
other sacred to the memory of the d.
Visions dead. He will return to the
post he formerly occupied ut Fort Bliss.
Fl Paso, Tex.
The Nansemond. formerly the Ham
burg-American Line steamship Penn
sylvania, brought Brig.-Gsn. Ora Z.
Hunt, commanding the Sixth Infantry
Brigade. his headquarters and staff. the
Second Battalion of the Thirty-eiEhth
Infantry. the 32sth Service Battalion
(negroes) and some scattered casual
companies
Wears Three Decorations.
Lieut. F. NJ. Brady of IL Randolph
street Yonkers. who arrived on the
Nansemond, wears the Distinguished