Evening journal., 1919-02-22
Army OF SOLDIERS
IS Due Home SOON
Seven Vessels Carry TO-
700 Troops from the
Other SIDE
FIGHTING UNITS
ARE ANNOUNCED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Departure
from France OF 700 officers and 10000
men Of the army on seven vessels. iR
Guiding Inc baitleship Michigan and
The cruiser Rochester, was announced
yesterday by The War Department. The
ships are due al Atlantic ports between
February % and March 3
Included among NE men are the frst
units OF The Twenty New York
National Guard Division 10 STAT for
home They are com ng on The French
liner ROchambeau from Havre and are
due at New York March 3.
on the transport are he field and
stan headquarters band Companies A.
p. C and d. and the ordnance and san
ilary deiachmenis OF the i02d engineers
bound for Camps Dix, Devens, Logan,
/ Grant and Gordon
The 1921 engineers was originally
constituted from me Twenty-second
| New York Engineers. with elghty-seven
men each rom The First. Twelfth,
Fourteenth. Seventy-nrsi. and Seventy
fourth New York Infantry regimen 8
and one officer and elshty-shree men
from the New York Ene'neer Train.
The White star liner olympic should
reach New York next Tuesday with 3,5
officers and 1912 men. most Of whom
/ compose units and delachments OF the
Ninely-second lNegro) Division
The largest unit is The complete
3c5ih Infantry. The ship also carries
the 3i7th Sanitary Train. the 1874 In
| flntry Brigade Headquarters and the
3i7th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop. all
Of the Ninety-secOnd Division detach-
ments Of the 350th Field Artillery. the
3iqth Machine Gun Battalion and the
367th Infantry: casual companies for
/ Tennessee and one each for Texas and
Illinois: Base Hospitals Nos. 81, % and
49, nifty casual officers and a large
number OF other casuals. Brigadler
General Charles Gerhardt, commanding
the lS2d Infantry Brigade also Is
aboard The Olympic.
The cruiser Rochester. also due at
New York Tuesday. has aboard ap-
lproximately 800 soldiers. Including the
I 467th Aero Squadron. a Texas casual
company and Mobile Hospital No 100
The TRANSPORT Buford is due az New
port News March Z. with a detachment
Of the slxty-thl~d Coast Artillery for
I Fort Logan. Colorado. a detachment OF
/ the Sixth heavy mobile ordnance repair
shop for Camp Grant and one for Co
4 lnmhus Barracks: casuad companies
for Arkansas. Illinois, Minnesota, Ten.
ncssee and Texas; part Of Company NJ
345th Infantry. Eighty-seventh Divi
sion. for Camp Grant: a colored casua
company for Virginia and scattere
casuals for Illinois and Ohio.
The transport Santa Marta Is du
March 5. port not given, with Base Hos
pitfalls Nos. 3 and p and casuals max
ing up fOrty-flve officers and nfty-on
linen.
The transport Powhattan Is du
March 2, port not given. with i05 offioeri
and 1906 men. including the sixty-sixtl
Coast Artillery complete; deiachment'
OF the Forty-seyenth Coast Artillery
and parts Of the S3jth and S36ih Field
! Artillery, OF the Eighty-seventh division,
and a number Of sick and wounded and
/ casuals.
The Michigan Is bringing the i05th
/ Trench Mortar Battery and another
I trench mortar battery the number or
which was unintellgible In the cable
gram as received by the War Depart
ment on board also are casual COM
panies Of Virginia, oklahoma. Califor-
MA, New York, ohio. Illinois and Texas
troons and eighteen casual o1lcers.
The department also announced That
Ouartermaster Casual Company 6, the
| 18Th Field Signal Battalion. Of the
lThirty-eiehth Division and Bakery
COMPANY 333, had been assigned FOR
early convoy