New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
Jersey Troops
Enter Berlin
ToCuard Food
Members of 18th Regiment
Are Reported Quartered
in Capital of Germany
Men Are Placed i'm Hotels
Old First Militia of Newark
Forms Nucleus Of Com
mand; Alabama Trained

LONDON, Feb. 20.-American troops
have arrived in Berlin and been quar-
tered IN different hotels, says a dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph from
Copenhagen, quoting the "Extrabla-
det's" foreign spondent.
The troops are said to belong to the
18th New Jersey Regiment and thcir
duty will be the protection of expected
transports of food.
er-Secretary of State Braun
says the correspondent declares.
that during the negotiations at Spa
and Treves the Allies refused to give
Germany credit on the ground that
she was unable TO pay A new agree.
ment was reached under which Ger
many is to get 1000 tons Of food for
$l1,S33, 600
Ihe government is negotiating with
Berlin and Hamburg banks to get the
money. A million marks is obtainablc
by the export of German goods and
otner money can be obtained bv the
seizure of neutral and British and
French bonds in private possession"
Inc 18th Infantry is made up of the
iormor 1st New Jersey, I'd New Jersey
and 4th New Jersey, constituting re-
spectlvely the 1st, I'd and I'd bat
talons of the 18th Infantry. The
regiment also absorbed two companies
OF the former 9th New Jersey. When
it sailed for France last June so per
cent of its 3,70O men came from points
in New Jersey on the New York side
of llackensack, Trenton, New Bruins
wick and Long Branch.
Trained at Camp Admission
Newark was the headquarters and
supplied virtually all the men of the
1st New Jersey. The I'd New Jersey
had half a dozen armories shared by
combinations of companies and hailing
from Trenton, Elizabeth, Plaintield.
Somerville, Lambertville, Asbury Park,
New Brunswick and Long Branch. The
4th New Jersey had its armory in
Jersey City and had men from that
city, Hoboken, Union Hill and Bay
onne. The 18th New Jersey, of which
there is trace in the 18th Infantry,
came from Passaic, Paterson, Ruther-
ford and Hackensack.
With other New Jersey regiments
they went to Camp Admission, to be
whipped into shape for modern war
fare as the Goth or "The Blue and the
Cray" Division. That was in Septem-
ber, 1917. For months they wallowed
in the mud Of nm Alabama winter One
June day regiment after regiment
filed out for the hike that had become
a frequent part of their training and
that was the last that Camp Mcclellan
saw of the Blue and the Gray.
Sailed for France June -
The 18th and its brother regiments
were rolling northward on special
trains. They detrained at Newport
News and sailed from that port for
France June Is, 1918, taking their in
terval in the eastward march of the
home troops which had started in April
with the 77th Division and been taken
up by the 9th and the 18th. The 29th
reached France June 81 when the
American stand at Chateau Thicrry
was invigorating Allied hopes.
1t trained at Chassieny and Belfort
On August the 113th took over q
sector opposite Mulhausen in Alsace
1t was a quiet bit Of the front and the
regiment had been sent there to get
the final polish on the training that
Continued ON a1nne sea,en