The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-11
HAIG PRAISES 9TH
IN CABLE TO 0'RYAN
"Countless Homes in Europe
Happier for What You Have
Done" He Wires.
MORE UNITS DUE TO-DAY
City Will See Old Seventh
Parade Twice-Series of
Honor Dances.

Before going to New Jersey yesterday
to inspect Camp Merritt, where the 10Th
Infantry is quartered, Major-Gen.
ORyan received this cable message from
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig:
"1n the name of your comrades In the
British army send 20 you and all ranks
OF the Twenty seventh American Dlvi-
sion our heartiest greetings on your safe
return. You can tell those who to-day
welcome you in your own homes that
countless hor1es in Europe are the hap
pier for what you have done. and that
the Old World will never forget her debt
OF gratitude to America"
Gen Organ replied:
'!'Many thanks for your kind cable
gram Of congratuation and greeting to
the Twenty Division. The dis
ciprned courage I'm battle of the British
soldiers. their fortitude and determine
ton during tho dark days of the war
and their modesty and generosity in
their relations with us won our respect
and high regard. We shall always re-
member with pride our service with the
British armies under your command in
the great war for world freedom"
The last OF the Twenty seventies men
are due here on the transport Seattle on
March ~, according to a despatch from
Washington. This will give ample time
to have everything in apple pie order
for parade day, March 20.
Troops Arrive Here To-day.
The units due to-day are: On the
Mount Vernon, scheduled to dock at
A NJ, the 102d Ammunition. Sanitary
and Supply trains on the Agamemnon.
scheduled to dock at . =. NJ. the SAM
tary Detachment, Headquarters Betach-
ment and Second Battalion Companies
nd - mi
will go to Camp Mills.
The transport America. due on Thurs
day with the Fifty-second Field Artil-
lery Brigade headquarters and the 1O4th
looth and 106th Field trtillery regi-
,nents will get a harbo reception al
most equal TO the fuss made over the
Leviathan last week. These artillery
men were part of tie Twenty -sevcnth
Division, but fought with the American
forces in the Meuse-Argonne and St
~Mihiel offensive while the infantry and
machine gunners tackled the linden
burg line with the British. The Mayors
committee will send the Patrol. the Cor
rcction and the Queens down the bay to
meet the America. Tickets may be had
at room 6O2. Hall of Records
On the Seattle. due March 10. are
the l04th Machine Gun Battalion. COM
plete with II officers and 396 men, and
fantry. The battleship Missouri, due
March IS. has "a officers and 724 men
OF the 106th Machine Gun Battalion.
The city will have chance to see
the 107th Infantry 1.-THE old Seventh,
New York National Guard) parade
twice. 1t will not only march as part
OF the Twenty-seventh Division on March
%, but on its way to the Seventh Regi-
nent Armory from Camp Merritt on the
celebration all It's own. The veterans
Of the Seventh will form the escort of
honor, and the members of the Seventh
commissioned into other units for the
war tthere are 1900 of them, and many
are now back in New York; will par
ticipate. Major General Daniel Apple
ton, for twenty-seven years Colonel Of
the Seventh. will be grand marshal, with
Samuel W. Fa!rchild, ex-president OF the
Union League Club, as his chief of staff.
Review at Union League.
The parade will be reviewed at the
Union League Club by Brig.-Gen. G. /.
Debevoise, now commanding the Fifty
third Brigade Of the Twenty seventh
Division, but who was Colonel of the
10Th in the fighting. The paraders will
march up Fifth avenue as far as Sixty
eighth street, turning east to the armory
Of the Seventh Regiment at Sixty-siXth
street and Lexington avenue. AS the
friends OF the other regiments are plan
ming to celebrate when they. too. come
to the city on March "a. the day before
promises, to be almost az much of an
occasion as the day itself.
Khaki and Blue" dances with men
OF the Twenty Division as guests
OF honor, will be given by the War
Camp Community Service at the Sew
snty-first Regiment Armory on March
10, Is, ~, 20 and 90.
An announcement on the bulletin
hoard at division headquarters in the
Biltmore says that by order of Gen.
Organ the paraders of March 25 will
start at 110th street and march down
Fifth avenue. The Mayors Committee
has many reasons for believing that Il
would be better to start downtown and
march north. There will he a conference
on this matter in a day or two.
A certain number Of grand stand
tickets for men in uniform may
he had by application nj the stand Of
the Mayors Committee, Forty-third
street and Broa dway. on any day be
tween noon and i. NJ. and between
6 and S p NJ