The sun., 1919-04-15
Eight Transports Arrive and
Bring First Of q. s. Fighters
From Italy.
GERMAN BRUTALITY TOLD
Woman Captured During Bat
tie Observation-Disclosures
While in Camp.

only four got In early enough to land
their passengers about half Of the whole
contingent. The Plattsburg. with Ease.
and 10 bluejackets, 8 children and 2
naval officers and l5o men. Tho brides
were In charge Of Major q. NJ Randall,
formerly OF the Regulars and now a
Red Cross worker, who has escorted 900
young wsmen. Americanlzed by mar
riage.' across the Atlantic. He says the
bachelor girls of the war harassed coun-
tries are eager to come to America as
is Indicated by the way they grab up
young Americans who propose.
Tells of German Brutality.
Among the brides is Elena V. McCor-
mick. formerly Miss Marsden. wife of
Sergeant-Major Franklin G. Mccormick
of the First Army Corps. who tells a
story OF German brutality She is a
Canadian and went to England with n
stenographic corps In 1914. She was
sent In 1917 TO a hospital near Rouen,
which became the centre of united aerial
and land attacks. With about one hun
dred other women the stenographer was
captured by the Germans, who prodded
the women with bayonets. One savage
cut Off the left breast of Miss Marsden.
After four months OF what she calls
unspeakable brutality she was released
and Wet back to France. While in a
oonvalescent camp that was shelled she
was wounded by splinters. and previ-
ously she was gassed and wounded by
shell fragments. While convalescing In
London she met the Sergeant-Major and
they were married.
With a large number OF convalescent
fighting men was a corporal OF marines.
Frank Naial of Richmond, Va, who
wears the Distinguished Service Cross.
He was with the Eighty-third Company
OF the Sixth Regiment, doing llaison work
at Chateau Thierry. The corporal dis
covered in the thick of the fighting that
his company had become separated from
the main body. The company COM
mander and most OF the issioned
officers had been killed or put out OF ac-
ton and the corporal assumed command.
He brought the company back to its
proper position and in doing so was
badly wounded by shrapnel.
The first Americans who have been
fighting on the Italian front arrived by
the Italian liner Duta d'Aosta, named
for the noblenan under whose command
the doughboys were In the period of bat
tie. The soldiers are part of the 332d
Infantry, under command Of Col. VII
liam Wallace, nephew Of Gen. Lew Wal
lace. The men went to France la st
June and were sent to Italy to help
check the Austrian advance They
operated first with the Thirty seventh
italian army under the Duca d'Aosta
and were transferred later to the Tenth
Army, made up of British, American and
Italian troops Col. Wallace was decor
ated by the British and Italians and the
citizens OF Genoa gave the regiment a
nag and n medal before it embarked.
Regiment to Parade.
Col Wallace and his men were greeted
ut the pier by a delegation representing
the italian colony, made up in part of
Gen. Emilio Guglielmott. military head
of the Italian mission here; Lieut.. Ca
milo Carlo, Lieut.. G. Serrati and Con-
sul-General Romelo Tritonj. The War
Department. the Consul-Gene told
Col. Wallace. had consented to have the
regiment parade on Monday marching
from Washington Square to 10th street.
into Central Park. where the Italian cit
liens and residents will present a gold
medal TO the doughboys, who captured
1900 Austrians in the brief period they
were in the war. The other units OF
Col. Wallace's command, some of whom
arrived last night by tho Canopic but
did not land, and the rest, due by the
Dante Alighiere, will be on hand anc
all of Little and Big Italy will txrn GU
10 hurl enthusiastic vivas at them.
Col Wallace told the Italian dslega
ton that he had lunched with kinG
Humbert at the front, and that tn,
K.na had partaKen OF the same meal
Including black bread. eaten by hi
troops Chaplain the Rev. Charles L
O'Donnell. professor OF English in tn,
Catholic University OF Notre Dame
South Bend. Ind. chaplain OF the 332d
returned with the first contingent of TIL
regiment.
Count Dentice d. Frasso of the Ital
ian Parliament, who accompanied tn,
troops in the DuCa d'Aosta, is vel
known In this city and Washington
having married a daughter of Mrs
Henry Siegel. After serving eighteen
mouths in Italy he was sent to Petro
grad as military attache to the Italian
Embassy there, arriving six days befor
the downfall of the Romanoffs. He wa
arrested by the Bolsheviki and was
prisoner twenty-five days in the Kries
tied prison before he was release,
through the efforts OF the Swiss Gov
eminent.
The troopship Floridlan had n sport!
collection of men from the Mountain
States--the 362d Infantry of the Ninety
FIRST Division (Wlld WesO in comman
of Major Clark Wright of Texas. Will
they were in st. Nazaire they put u
most of their pay and all their souvenir
that they would get here first by tn
Floridian, supposed to be n punk racer
and derisiveiy called a tub" by vitu
perative doughboys sailing by this Mexi
can. the Edward Luckenbach and tn
Lancaster. How much dough the sport
Of the Floridian promised Of their win
nings to the engineers force was not re
vealed by the latter. but they piled o.
the fuel and would have put Il Niger o.
the safety valve II there had been tina
Bort Of valve or niger handy The.
certainly had a jubilation when the
came in first with the Luckenbach an
the Mexican hours astern and the Ian
caster still to be heard from.
The Wild Westerners OF the 362d In
fantry lost in action, killed. wounde
and prisoners. 1,l26 men and only /
officers OF the IS who went TO Franc
have returned. Thirty men of the regi
ment have received the Dlstnguishe
Service Cross. eighteen the Belgla
Croix de Guerre and fifteen the F'rencI
CroiX de GueFre.
Brings French Bride.
The wife OF Sergeant Ezra A. Ora
ham. the oldest enlisted man who Tough
with the Rainbow Division. arrived b.
the Rochamheau. She was Mile. Alb
bretta Steve OF Rennes. After the ser