The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-06

your dead the homage Of our thankful
ness, and I say to those who leave. bon
voyage, good luck In life and do not for
get your French friends"
Secretary Baker had talks with the
welfare workers aboard the George
Washington and expressed himself in
favor of increasing their space in the
ship instead of doing otherwise, as had
been suggested In some quarters. AS
sisted by Raymond b. Fosdick Of the
Fosdick Commission the Secretary made
his inquiries and became convinced that
the presence of the welfare workers as
sisted in promoting the morale of the
men on the ship. The Secretary said
that soon the majority OF the officers
would be home and the rooms occupied
by them would be given to the welfare
workers, who now sleep four in a room.
Other passengers by the George WASH
ington were Bishop Charles c. Brent Of
the Philippines. who had been chief chap
lain Of the American Expeditionary
Force Representatives William B. Nc
Kinley. Richard Yates, Martin B. Mad
den. Thomas Connolly, c. w. Ramseyer
and L. LASaro.
The last word of Gen. Ham to the re-
porters was In laudation OF his division.
He said he was grateful to It because 1t
had finally made him Brigadier- Cen
eral In the Regular Army He added:
THE young men of the division are
coming home strong and clean. smiling
and happy to Renter competition in civil
pursuits They ask for no charity, They
know there Is awaiting them a square
deal in Gods own country, the beauty
and glory Of which they have learned to
appreciate"
A feature OF the voyage was a ban
quet aboard the George Washington in
honor OF the General. The toasts were re-
layed by wireless to the Cap Flnisterre !:
en- which were many units OF the division.
to the General Grant, and to all the
ships on which are other Iowa troops.
Then they were relayed inland to French
billets. where the rest of the Thirty
second men await embarkaton, 30 that
the banquet stretched 30 to speak, over
1000 miles of sea and land.
Germans Exult Over Sea Deeds.
The Hamburg American liner Cap
Flnisterre. sister ship to the Cap Ira
| falgar, sunk by the Cunarder Carmania
early in the war, arrived yesterday with
| a disguised lot of naval officers running
her and doughboys too polite to say ex-
| actly what they thought OF the conduct
and talk OF two German officers, the
custodians of the troopship. who seem to
have the impression that they licked
| somebody In the late war.
Capt. Emil Pohlmann of Hamburg
boosted coming up the bay that as first
prize officer Of the German raider Moewe
he had helped to sink forty-three ships,
mostly British. and he showed the pLo-
| tographs he had taken OF nearly all of
them, mostly in the act of going down.
| He also said gleefully that II was true
| that he had threatened to blow up the
| Appam which he took into Newport
, News. as her skipper had said. II the
British crew made any effort to over
| whelm his small prize crew.
He declared In broken English that
he would also have blown himself up.
but that did not matter. One OF the
| American officers who was pestered
| with the German suggested that he
| should have his head inserted in a
| bucket and tossed into the sea- but all
were pleasant to him because that is
| the habit OF American naval officers
| to their country's guests, desirable or
undesirable.
Quite as lacking in politeness was
| Alois Burgmeyer, formerly chief engi-
| neer on the German destroyer BIS
| one OF the latest and best OF her class
He told exultingly how every time his
| squadron of destroyers went raiding the
British boats turned and fled
] on one occasion, he said an American
| destroyer was with a squadron Of Ave
and she ran away like the rest. He
| abused the English roundly and once
| remarked to an American listener
What a fine ally you picked :"
| The attack on Zeebrucge mole. Burg