Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-20
FOUR BOATS BRING
BACK FIGHTING MEN
Hundreds of Them Gaze on
Home Shores From
Their Cots.
THRoNG ON SHORE CHEERS
Germany Renders Dead Soldiers
to Get Fats, Says Cap
tain Hudgens.
THRONG ON SHORE CHEERS
I By Associated Press. IL

steamships. their decks crowded with
American lighting men. hundreds OF
whom gczcd upon the home shores from
cos and convalcsceni chairs, passed
tho Statue Of Liberty to-day amid n
din from harbor craft. bringing home
4,se2 heroes.
The climax OF the demons,ra ton
came when the hospital ship Comfort.
bearing 3Tl sick and wounded. entered
INC upper bay and was hailed By cheers
from the throngs on shore and the
strains of Home. Sweet Home" from
Dand on board vessel carrying
Mayor Hylan's commi,tce of welcome.
AS me Comfort came abreast the Sta
tue OIL Liberty great shout arose from
heT decks. crowded to the rails with
soldiers in bandagcs. supported by
-cTutcheS and canes or seated in casy
chairs. Through the portfolios of the
hospita! ship glimpses were caugh; OF
the more seriously wounded
SICK AND WOUNDED
ARRIVE ON COMFORT
The other steamships were trans
portS-thc Lapland, which brought p
os5 soldiers; the Sierra, with 1915. and
the Wnhclmina, with l.0i1 aboard. OF
the sick and wounded brough: back
by the Comfort. l2s were naval men
and four were marines.
The troops on the Laplanl for ths
MOS. paFt-WeTe casual companies made
up or men from base hospitals in
france and Eng and most OF whom
were convalescent. One other dctach-
ment. the One Hundred and Fourteenth
Trench Mortar Battery. which had not
seen service at the front, was on it's
May back 10 Camp Beauregard, La.
me c::sual companies and their desti-
nations are: Nos. Two Hundred and
Eleventh. Two Hundred and Twelfth.
Two Hundred and Thirteenth, Camp
liN; Two Hundred and Fourteenth,
Upton; Two Hundred and Fifteenth.
Two Hundred and Sixteenth. Three
dred and Nineteenth, Meade; Four
Hundred and Seventeenth. Gordon. The
LapiaDd also carried Gfty-six casual
officers.
FIELD ARTILLEUYMEN
on BOARD SIERRA
Among the troops on the Sierra were
Inc Three Hundred and Thirty seventh
regiment Of Field Artillery and 237
casual officers and enlisted men, the
latter from Hospitals in FrancssssFTh6
aTtliier!. regiment was trained az Camp
Dodge. Des Moines, and comprises Sc
South Dakota, Iowa. Ncbra ska and Mis-
souri,. 1t had been in the Claremont
section of France.
Of the men on the Wilhelnlina, 4O5
We're from the radio station near Bor-
deauz, where they were engaged in
constructing four radio towers. There
were also 200 men OF the naval aero
squadron. with a base in Northern
france. Also on board were the Three
Hundred and 'rhirty-four:h and Three
Hundred and Thirty-sixth Divisions of
the medical supply unit; the Three Hun
d!ed and Eleventh Sanitary Train Of
the Eighty-si%th Division. the head
quarters field hospital and three hos.
pitai units and l72 wounded
Among the wounded officers on the
comfort were Lieutenants Joseph f..
Smith. Waterloo, $. G. and BENJAMIN
r. Malone. Monticello, Ga.
The Comfort left Plymouth January
and five days later put into the Azores
after a Stormy passage.
GERMANY IN DIRE STRAITS.
DECLARES CAPTAIN HUDGENs
Germany was in dire straits when
the war ended, according to Captain
Robert w. Hudgens. OF Eaurens. S. c.,
who arrived on the Comfort. He was
attached TO the One Hundred and Eigh-
tcenth Infantry. Th!rtieth Division, and
when the town OF Bellecourt was cap
tured the captain said the Anne ricans
found the bodies of German soldiers
fats. \ complete rendering plant was
found in Il tunnel beside the BelIecourt
Canal. Captain Hudgens said.
Three wounded heroines also were
aboard the Comfort. All were nurses
and one of them. Miss Marie Smith.
OF Berkeley. Cal. was wounded in the
foo; by shrapRel at Chateau-Thierry
while attached to medical unit with
one OF the sixteen-inch naval gun
crews. Members OF the gun crew de-
clnred she kept on attending to the
wounded until ordered from the field by
an officer.
Aboard the Lapland also were sew
eral men. casuals from the Twenty
seventh Division. commanded by Ma
jor-General John i. Organ
On board the Wilhemina were Cap
tain a. W. Rucker. Jr., who was su-
nerintendent OF schools In ST. Louis.
Mo. when he enlisted In the Twenty
second aero squadron; Lieutenant w
T.. Bel2er. OF Helena Mont. another
aviator, and Major Reuben c. Hamil-
son. Union. s. c.. a medical officer, all
of whom wore decorations