The sun., 1919-06-01

quarters OF the covered store houses had
been completed and more than half the
open storage space was ready. The
General received the Legion OF Honor
from France. the American Distin-
guished Service Medal and was gazetted
Companion of the order Of the Bath
by the British Government
Among the other general officers on
the Rotterdam were Major-Gen Frank
L. VIM, commanding the Eighty ninth
Division, and Brig. Gen. George G. Barn.
hardt. commanding the 17sth Infantry
Brigade OF the same division. The 305th
Sanitary Train returned on the same
vessel under the command OF Major
Charles II. Lewis of Richmond, Va.
Other units on board were Ambulance
Companies at to SEQ inclusive and
Hospital Companies 817 to $40 All
these organizations had q narrow escape
from capture when they received orders
to establish a military hospital at st.
Georges and when they advanced found
the town in possession of the Germans.
Bnzi Suziki, president of the Japanese
Federation of Labor. also was pas
senger nthe Rotterdam. He Is on his
way homo after three months In France,
where he attended the Peace Confer
ence as a Representative OF Japanese
labor.
Two Soldiers washed Overheard.
The voyage of the Pueblo was sad
dened by the loss Of two mon. who were
washed overheard when the ship was
in the Bay OF Biscay. about $50 miles
out of Brest. A sea struck the ship
while n number OF men were on the
forward deck and Corporal Harry s.
Hoyey, Company Il, and Private Joseph
c. Stone, Company II, both of the 1921
Infantry, were carried over the rail by
the force of the water. A boat was low
cred and Stone was picked UP. but died
In the ships hospital from mis- injuries,
Hovey was not seen again.
The troops on board the Pueblo were
all members of the 142 dInfantry. Thirty
sixth Division, so officers and 1.749 men.
mostly from Texas and Oklahoma, They
were under the command of Col. F. w.
Bloom. a lawyer of Austin, Tex, who
won the Croix de Guerre.
On the Louisville, besides the sixty-ive
brides, mostly French and English girls
and fourteen children, were three aerial
Photographic squadrons. the Fifth and
Ninety-fourth Aero Pursuit squadrons
and a number of casuals, 1897 officers
and men. all told. under the command
of Major II. G. Ferguson. formerly at
tached to the 142d Field Artillery.
Col. Harry Cutler of Providence, pres
ident of the Jewish Welfare Board. also
was a passenger on the Rotterdam. He
was a delegate TO the Peace Conference
from the Zionist conference and ex-
pressed himself as hopeful that the plan
for making Palestine a homeland for
the Jews Of the world would be adopted
Col. Cutler also visited every section OF
France In which American troops are
quartered at the present time and said
that he was convinced that all the well
fare organizations ought to continue
their work until the last fighting men
had been demobilized and had jobs.
The Cunard liner Carmania brought
LAG saloon passengers from Liverpool
Tho ship called at Halifax and disem-
parked 1000 Canadian soldiers. Among
her passengers were Lieut-Col. Homer
Folks Of the American Red Cross. Mrs
Folks and their daughters, Gertrude and
Evelyn: @. S. Mandell and Mrs Man
dell. ,Archdeacon Z. Grey and Lieut.
Charles @. Robinson of the Royal Flying
Corps and his bride.
Col. Folks and his family have been
engaged In war work in France, and
Col Folks served for time in Serbia,
where he was decorated by the Serbian
Government with the Order of the White
Eagle for his work His party were the
first Americans to visit Serbia after the
signing of the armistice.
Just before sailing Col. Folks made a
trip through the war zone Of France and
Belgium at the direction OF the Red
Cross War Council to procure accurate
data on present conditions. In speaking
of conditions in Europe generally, Col
Folks said:
THE need for American help Is still as
serious in some regions as It was at any
time during the war. In many respects
the situation went from very baa to
much worse after the signing Of the ar
mistice. Old governments were over
thrown and new ones not functioning
Everybody was dead tired and could not
go on at war pressure. The suffering
caused by the war went on after the
fighting stopped, Just as the expenses
did. Transportation systems that had
Just held out through the war went to
pieces. and the food and fuel shortage
became even more acute. Millions OF
refugees began to give up such Jobs as
they had and make their way back to
their homes. often walking hundreds of
miles.
Suffering Is stiH Going On.
These things make getting back to
America from Europe seem like getting
out from under n black overhangtng
cloud which never lifts" Col. Folks con-
tinued.
But here the sun still shines. Our
economic life has been upset. but we still
have our men to set 1t right again. We
still have our homes. our families: we
still live in comfort; We are the richest
nation in the world and one of the most
populous. We had only just gotten