The sun., 1919-08-21
THREE TRANSPORTS
ARRIVE FROM BREST
Matsonia, American and Troy
Bring Detachments of
the A. 4. +.
MORE SHIPS THAN MEN
More Than Twice as Many
Vessels as Are Needed Now
at French Port.

Incoming transports which reached
port yesterday were the Matsonia and
America, from Brest, which locked at
Hoboken. and the Troy. also from Brest.
which discharged her troops at the Army
Base in South Brooklyn. None of the
three steamships was loaded to full ca
pacity, and the officers said there were
now ships at Brest with a capacity of
more than twice the number Of Amer
leans remaining in France.
Tho America, which left Brest on
August II, carried 1916 officers and
men, including part of the Eighteenth
Field Artillery and the Thirtieth 1nfan-
try, and Gen. W. W. Cruikshank of the
Third Field Artillery Brigade and his
stan. Lieut.-Col. T. c.. Gottschalk OF
Milwaukee was in command of the
Eighteenth Field Artillery, and the
Thirtieth Infantry was under the COM
mand of Lieut-Col. Thomas F. Mcneil
of Marion, Ohio.
On Tuesday afternoon Machinists'
Mate Herman Weimers of the ships en-
CINE room force was badly scalded by
the blowing out of n cylinder head. He
was rescued By comrades and taken to
the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn as soon
40 AhN NiohSpcAN bONhNis
Third Division Men Land.
The Matsonia landed 1851 members
Of the A. E. F. the bulk of them being
the thirty-one officers and 979 men OF
the Thirty-eighth Infantry of the Third
Division, including the headquarters
Company. medical detachment and the
First battalion complete. Col. Frank
II. Adams. who went overseas as a Ma
jor, returned in command of the regi-
ment. He was wounded twice and wor
the Distinguished Cross, the Croix de
Guerre and the Legion of Honor. The
regiment had 500 men killed and 2,7OC
wounded, he said. in the action along the
Marine in july and in the Argonne dur
ing September and October
Another passenger on the Matsonia
was James Patrick Woods 226 West
Twenty-second street. listed as n desti.
tute American seaman, who told a tale
of unlimited deposits of valuable ore anC
precious stones which he claimed 10 have
discovered on the Murmansk peninsula
According to his story, he sailed from
New York on April aboard the Ship.
ping Board steamer Seidrecht and landed
at Murmansk May 81. He became IL
and was removed to the British genera
hospital and his ship sailed before he re-
covered.
A Monaghan native of the country told
him of a deposit of silver ore in the
hills fifty miles away, discovered by two
Polish sailors. who had been afterward,
killed by the Bolshevists. AS soon a:
he was allowed to leave the hospita
Woods procured a small pick and shove
and went in search of the ore. He for.
merly lived in Utah, he said. and wa,
familiar with practical mineralogy.
He not only found that the natives
tales were entirely justified, but beside;
the silver ore he found platinum IL
larger quantities than in the richest
mines hitherto worked and also out
groupings Of amethysts and copper.
Intends to Return.
He believes that millions await the de
velopment OF the territory, which he say,
and begin mining operations in part
nership with two Lieutenants in one OF
the engineer regiments stationed in tn,
district
Among the 1895 officers and men or
the Troy were five former officers OF
their way to Fort Jay awaiting confirma
ton of court-martial sentences. Al
though their names were made public
as we'll as the branch OF the service tC
! which they belonged. officials of the De
partment Of the East refused to say
what units they had been connected
with or disclose the nature Of the of.
fences OF which they had been convicted
Their names were announced as fol
lows: First Lieut.. Don C. Fleming, Quar-
termaster Corps; First Lieut.. Franz
Hodson, Quartermaster Corps; Second
Lieut.. Alfred S. Hamblin, Field Artil