New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
General Howe.
Commander of
Third, Returns
Unveiled Two Monuments
at Chateau Thierry Be-
fore Leaving in Memory
of Men Lost by Division
German Bride Arrives
Nearly 10000 Soldiers
Come Into Port in Day
Aboard of Six Transports

Major General Robert Lee Howe,
commander of the Sd Division, which
won fame at the Marine. returned with
some of his troops yesterday on board
the transport Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm.
The former German liner was one of
SIX transports to arrive here yester-
day, the troopships bringing to port
close to ten thousand officers and men.
Major General Howe succeeded Ma
1or General Joseph T. Dckman as
commander of the Sd Division and saw
ten days of fighting with them before
the armistice was signed. More than
10000 troops, he said had been as
signed to the Sd Division to keep it}up
to its normal strength of $4,000 men.
That shows how hard we were hit
In the Marine and Argonne offensives,"
said the general.
Unveiled Monuments
Shortly before the division left the
area near CoblenZ, where they were on
duty after the march to the Rhine, a
petition signed by 10000 German resi-
dents of the territory occupied by the
ID Division, asking that the division
be kept there, was presented to Major
General Howe. Two weeks before the
Major General Howe officiated at the
unveiling of two monuments at Cha
teau Thierry, one commemorating the
battles the 3D. Division had taken part
in during the war and the other to
commemorate the divisions dead. The
general was formerly in charge of the
Ell Paso district, and will return to that
post. He wears the Congressional
Medal awarded in 1891 for services in
Indian wars and the D. S. M. and the
CroX de Guerre awarded in France.
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the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm were men
OF the 30th Infantry, the Sd Division
Headquarters troop and detachment,
the 10th Field Artillery, the 10th Mo
bile Bathing Unit and the Sd Division
postal detachment. There were also
seventy casual officers on the steamer.
German Bride Aboard
The first German girl brought here
since the war, a bride, came over on
the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm. She is
the wife of Lieutenant S. Kenneth
Griffen, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and was
formerly Miss Margaret Rathburst, of
Coblenz. Lieutenant Griffen is still in
Germany with the 7th Machine Gun
Battalion, the only unit of the Sd Di-
vision still in Germany.
Accompanying Major General Howe
was Brigadier General Merriweather L.
Walker. Captain II. c. Merritt, of
Tuckahoe, N. " former bond sales
man, who won his commission at
Plattsburgh was the generals aid. He
was wounded twice on the Marine and
has the Distinguished Service Cross,
the Croix de Guerre with palm, is a
chevalier of the Legion Of Honor, and
was cited six times for bravery.
The PrinZ Friedrich Wilhelm made
her fifth and last trip as transport.
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press steamers running between Bre
men and New York and was owned by
the North German Lloyd line.
Another troopship, the Nansemond,
formerly the Pennsylvania, of the
Hamburg gAmerican line, ended her ca
reer as transport yesterday. On board
this ship were troops belonging to the
9th Infantry Brigade Headquarters un>
der command of Brigadier General Ora
E. Hunt, and many officers and men
Of the I'd Battalion, 3Sth Infantry, the
"Rock of the Marne" regiment.
Lieutenant f. NJ Brady, of 13 Ran
dolph Street, Yonkers, of the 9th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, was on the Nanse-
mond. He won two CroiX de Guerre
with palms, the Distinguished Service
Cross and is a member of the Legion
of Honor. On the Marne he captured
thirty-two prisoners single handed, and
in the Argonne, with twentyseven men,
raided number of German machine
gun nests and returned with seven Of
ticers and ninety men as prisoners.
The other troopships to arrive yes
terday were the Madawaska, the Sol
Navis, the Powhatan and the Huron.
All of the ships, except the Powhatan
and the Madawaska, docked at Hobo
ken. The Powhatan and the Madawaska
dropped their anchors at the Army
Base. South BROOKLYN.