The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-22
SOUTHERNERS
ON TROOP ship
31st Division, Composed of
Georgians, AIabamians,
FIoridianS, Arrives.
MANY LAND AT BOSTON
Returning Soldiers Say Ger
man Women Fought at
Chateau Thierry.

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Manchuria arrived here today from
France with the training cadres from
the Thirty first division Georgia,
Florida and Alabama); the 116th and
117th field artillery, headquarters
Fifty sixth artillery brigade. 106th
ammunition train, headquarters Six
ty-second infantry and 966 sick and
wounded.
All of these artillery, ammunition
and infantry units are Of the Thirty
first division, comprising men from
Georgia. Alabama and Florida. They
were at Lemans, France, shortly after
the armistice was signed.
The wounded and sick are from va
rious parts of the country. The total
was 4,557.
The transport Cretic arrived here
from Brest with the Fifty-fifth coast
artillery.
Assigned to Come Home.
Washington, Jan. 22.s-Additional
units of the American expeditionary
forces totalling 27O officers and 4,927
men have been assigned to early con-
of staff. announced today.
Arrives From Brest.
Boston, Jan. 22.-U. N. S.)-The
royal mail steamship Melita. from
Brest, France. bringing home 1850
soldiers, officers, nurses and civilian
war workers. arrived today. From
the transport were landed $50
wounded and gassed men from Mas
sachusetts and the southwest: men,
bers of five casual companies; the
Nntn mobile hnurita1 ,.nt,trptx.er
the front line without a casualty;
Capts. Victor HeintZ, of Cincinnati.
and Thomas w. Jones, of Mddleport.
o., two soldier legislators: two Amer
lean aces, Lieut.. c. A. Ralston, Lin
coin. Neb., who downed seven enemy
planes, and Lieut.. o. p. Johnson, of
and six birdmen who were in German
prison camps.
Doughboys of greater Boston said
that the women in uniform of Ger
man soldiers who fought against the
Twenty sixth division at Chateau
Thierry were from German peniten-
tiaries, given their choice of remain
ing in Jail or going to the firing line.
Bodies Of the women, they said, were
found on the battlefield.
The Yale unit was headed by Col.
Joseph NJ. Flint, professor of surgery
at Yale.
Among the Yale athletic stars In
the enlisted personnel are: Sergt
Wilton j. Arnold, basketball man,
and Alrick II. Mann, Of New York,
former tennis champion.
I'VE worked mostly about FIVE
miles from tho enemy.v' ,said Capt.
Streemer. or Boston. "Sften f{iey
We're shelling over the hospital while
our meS were operating. The last
day of the war we were at Chaillon
with the Twenty-eighth division, a
Pennsylvania unit up fighting In
front of us, On that day we got our
largest number of cases."
Among the army officers on the
Melita We're: Brig. Gen. ]. M. Fin
ney; Coils. l.. J. Freer, Philip Cor
buster. w. S. Fell, l.. Kanaval and
j. l.. Knowlton; Lieut.. Coils. Samuel
Mccullough, John l.. Yates. Frank l..
Travis, Jos. NJ. Flint and VIM. F.
Walsh.
Parts OF the same units OF the
Thirty.first division, which arrived
today on the Manchuria, were brought
home Dec. 20 on the same vessel. The
contfngents which arrived Dec. 20
have been largely mustered out.
Following are the units: Base hos
pital No. Is. 176 officers and men and
So nurses; Ninetieth aero squadron,
172; 104th aero squadron, 1856 officers
and men; Thirty ninth company of
transportation corps. 255; First cas-
nal company of transportation corps,
15S; Second casual company of trans
portation corps, 95.
The following tank corps units:
332d battalion, 1855; replacement and
salvage companies, 376th, rs: 377th,
2S: 37Sth, 2S; 379th, "a; 3S0th. 10;
SS1st. 10; 334th battalion, 519: 307th
replacement and salvage company.
40: 3lSth ditto. 906; 335th battalion,
24O; 336th battalion, 21S; 337th bat
TALON, 216; casual companies a, IA:
b, 9S, and G, 110. October auto
matics replacement draft, 204, and
303d center, 81.
Cement mill companies, No. .. 10;
No. 4, 9S, and No. s, Il; quartermas-
ter casual company No. 3, 149; Seven
tcenth balloon company, 1888; 106th
balloon company 1872; 109th field sig
nal battalion, Thirty fourth division,
493; 464th pontoon train, 40: 407th
telegraph battalion, 224; Fifty eighth
regiment coast artillery corps. less
Third battalion, 1850, and base hos
pItal No d 17O and