The sun., 1919-05-02
5000 TROOPS BACK
WITH POLICE UNIT
Rescuers of Lost Battalion
Among Those to Return on
Nine Transports.
LEADER TELLS OF FIGHT
Finland on Round Trip to
France Sets Appendicitis
Operation Record.

Nine thousand doughboys landed yes
terday from four transports docking in
Hoboken and Brooklyn. A small unit
OF the Seventy-seventh Division. a mill
tary police company Of seven officers and
1ss men, about half Of whom are former
policemen Of this city. came by tho st.
Louis also companies I, X. l. and M Of
the Third Battalion OF the 3o7th In
fantry under Major Weston Jenkins.
Company X was cut of in the Argonne
woods with the Lost Battalion" last
October and the other companies were
the rescuing force. Major Jenkins won
the Distinguished Service Cross. with one
star for leading the rescuers He said
that when the battalion broke through
the German lines the Germans were as
much surprised as Whittlesey's men.
They closed in behind the battalion when
! they felt sure that they had a chance of
capturing It. and strung wires between
Whittlesey and the rest of his troops,
Major Jenkins said he sent out three
parties of three men each to make an
effort to get into communication with
Whittlesey. None got through, and only
| one man returned.
Hard Fight for Advance.
Then" continued the Major, I'VE ad-
vanced In waves and lines the standard
| movement of attack, and got nowhere.
Then we resorted to infiitration, what
might be called Indian warfare. and
finally we broke through. OF the 1000
men and 20 officers OF the Third Bat
TALON who went into action to save the
lost battalion only $50 men and four
omcers survived. In our advance sent
platoon Of about forty men around a
building at a railroad curve. 1 waited a
few minutes and then went to look after
the men. / saw nothing Of the platoon.
Machine gun bullets whistled near my
head and I retired / think am the
only man that got around that building
that ever returned"
| The Finland on the round trip from
France that she finished yesterday es-
tablished q record for appendicitis OPP
erations at sea. As she was nearing
St. Nazaire Robert Miller, able seaman.
was relieved of the bothersome appendix
by Lieut.. B. r. Lyon. assistant ship
surgeon. Coming west Private Charles
w. Hall OF the military police and Pri-
vate w. L. Nagel of the 1o3d Engi-
neers were put on the table within an
hour Of each other on April 2S, and
both were doing well when the liner
locked in Hoboken.
| The 1880 Engineers, Twenty eighth
Division, who got in by the Finland,
| under command OF Col. r. A. Snyder
Of Philadelphia. had 6ss cas- uarties
One Of their performances Of which they
| were proud was the construction of the
only trestle bridge thrown across the
Marine. They acted As infantry several
times. Lieut-Col. F. J. Duffy. second
in command Of the engineers, was killed
In August by an explosive shell that hit
his automobile.
|. Enlisted Hero Returns.
The Henry r. Mallory, docking in
Brooklyn. brought back the FIRST enlisted
man in the aero service to receive the
Distinguished Service Cross. He Is Ser
geant Frederick C. 0raveIlne OF Cleve-
land. Last September he was attacked
by three German planes and exhausted
all his ammunition in fighting them off.
One persisted in the chase. The SER
seant tore off his cartridge clip and
hurled 1t at the pursuing Hun, who
evidently believed that the missile was
a grenade and turned tail. The SER
geant is officially credited with downing
three planes. The only hospital unit
band in the service arrived BY the NAL
lory. 1t played for the Twenty -ifth
Evacuation Hospital in France
| The Pastores, which locked last night
brought the Third Anti-Aircraft Ma
chine Gun Battalion OF New York the
Eighth Aero Squadron and battalions OF
the Field Artillery Replacement Regi.
ment Of Pennsylvania