The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-27
LINER CARONTA HERE.
WITH $500 TROOPS.
831st Infantrymen, Prevented
From Fighting, Envy Heroes
Who Bear Wars Marks.
BRAVE TANK MEN RETURN
Ship Brings Bride for Officer
and Another Voyager Finds
His Wife Has Died.

Reeretting that they had been unable
TO share the glory of some Of the casuais
who accompanied them the entire sSlst
Infantry, composed chiefly OF men from
western Pennsylvania and Ohio. re-
turned from France yesterday by the
Cunarder Caronia. The only shots they
had fred were incidental to their two
months training that ended when the
armlstice was signed. There were 81
officers and 3,cis men. which was re-
duced by one few minutes after the
transport locked. Private Joseph Craig.
one Of tho replacement men from Ala
bama. dropping dead on deck Of heart
disease.
The home coming Of Milton X. Dodd
OF Brooklyn was marred by the An
nouncement OF the death OF his w'te'
which had been withheld from him. She
told him when he left that she feared
she would never see him again She
believed he would be killed In France.
He did not get to the front. but her
presentment came true through her own
death on November 20 from pneumonia
at the homo Of her father-in-law.
Spencer Court, brooklyn. Private Dodd
asked eagerly after his wife. and then
his father and mother broke the news
to him.
Soldiers other than the SS1st Infantry
were three casual companies OF AL en-
listed men in charge Of officers 81
casual officers. As enlisted men IN the
ships hospital and IS officers and -
enlisted men who required no special
medical attention. Also there were "a
women army nurses and the usual medi-
cal complement TO care for the woundep
Tank Comma nders Return.
with the casual officers were several
tank commanders, including Lieut.
Thomas r. Darden. formerly OF tho New
York Herdld stafr in Washington. He
was with the 301st Heavy Tank Bat
talon and fought all through Picardy
with the British. being cited by ooth
the British and French. Darden won
the Crox de Guerre, the medal of King
Albert OF Belgium and a special medal
struck off by the British to commend
rate the smashing Of the Hindenburg
line.
Lieut.. parden got out of his tank TO
inspect German barbed wire near the
Belgian border and touched strand,
-hus exploding a hand grenade that
badly wounded him in the face. He was
:assed on September 20 and Just after
'eturning to duty got another dose on
October IL He is still under treatment.
Lieut.. Clayton Knight. f06th Flying
,orps. OF 291 Fifth avenue, was at
ached to the British aerial forces and
vas shot down on October while over
he German lines near Courtrai. and
Ill badly hurt He said he was trans
erred apparently to all the hospitals
Germany After he had counted ten,
ef,isinR to exert himselfto recall their
.olysyllable names, he gave 1t up. The
,st hospital he was I'm WAS not far
rom the allied advance lines and he
cared for a time that our own bat
cries that were sending tremendous
uantities Of shells that seemed to be
ursting rear the hospital, might get
i'm. As they did not he decided that
ne Yankee artillerists knew what they
2ere doing. Soon after that British
mbulance convoy came and he was
AIKEN to Journal and thence to Brussels.
Red Cross at Hindenburg Line.
Major n. z. Pomeroy OF the American
led Cross, who Ia vice-president Of the
Iankers Trust Company. was eish.
lonths working with the Canadian and
australian Red Cross forces. with head
uarters at Boulogne He said there
yere three American divisions with him
II the time and Ave part OF the time
lie saw the men of the Twenty seventh
nd Thirtieth after they had taken the
Ilndenbu~g tunnel. the strongest poin,
the famous line At this point. &C
or'ng TO allied coworkers. the Ameri-
an Red Cross rendered great and gal
mt service
Lieut.. Henry Clay Kinsey. Petersburg
a, a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of Henry
lay, was attached to the First Tank
battalion at Paschendaele, and was
nocked out by shrapnel Just as he
topped out Of his tank. and his left hand
as crippled. They patched him up In
Il English hospital and he returned "a
le front. At 81. Mihiel. while away
'om his tank doing outpost duty, shrap-
Ell sprayed his right leg. paralyzlng IL
lnCe then he spent most OF his time II
Fht different hospitals In France
Corporal Charles s. Wingert OF Bay
me, crippled in the Argonne Forest
ghting, limped around the ship with a
ane, the high cost of which he strongly
eplored. although he declares he would
OF part with It even for the price he
aid in French village, He said the
,ne might hs worth a dollar on Broad
Iay. He felt that he needed the cane
lst after he was released from hospital
ear a French village. and he asked the
iropkeeper how much II was. With
reat buccaneer politeness the cane
eller said "hfty francs" and the Cor.
oral protested in the best French he
ould muster that he was Just a simple
orporal and not an American million.
ire and couldn't the shopkeeper come
own r few dozen francs. Finally the
orporal bought the cane. which he be.
leves is the highest priced stick ever
'wned by 'non-com" In any army.
Wounded Heroes Home Mt Last.
Among the local heroes who came ir
With wounds are: Private Robert Sem.
ror. Company I, 106th Infantry, FAC
Vest ll1th street. who lost his right les
1t 81. Quentin; Private Walter Whalen
l05th Infantry. Stapleton, machine CUR
outlet wounds in legs: Private Bernard
l. ONeil. 106th Infantry. The Bronx
wounds in left leg: Private Samue
Knoll 10Sth Infantry, The Bronx leg
wounds: Corporal Bernard Schaumberg
Brooklyn, shrapnel wounds OF right leg
Some of the civilian passengers from
liverpool were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A
Sylvester, who made a rounda bout trir
from RIO de Janelro. covering about
10000 miles, because they could get nc
direct steamship from Brazil: David
Crompton. president OF Booth & Co
owners of the Booth Line. and who said
the line soon expected TO have It's norma
number of sallngs to and from ports Of
the Amazon w. ]. Otis and his daugh.
ter. Miss, M. A. Otis, who were interned
in Austria when the United States en-.
tered the war.
Miss Louise Shepherd, young Eng.
lishwoman. who was met at the pier By