Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-03-29
PERTH AkbOY SOLDIERS HOME FROM FRANCE BY MAY

According to an issue OF The
Flash" the official newspaper of the
18th t~Lightning) Division, now in
France, that division is scheduled to
leave for home some time in the lat
ter part Of May. The paper contain
Ing the article referring to the return
home was published on February "a
and has just been received by John
+. Bullwinkel, OF Madison avenue,
his son, John, being one of the many
Amboy youths in this division.
The coming OF the 18TH DIVISION
will mark the first big contingent of
soldiers from Amboy and this vicin-
ity to come back from overseas. The
division has been assured that it VIII
be home by July 4 and il it starts to
break camp in May it should arrive
in this country some time during the
middle or latter part of June. Avail
ability Of transport facilities viii
have much to do with the division
leaving on scheduled time, the item
asserts.
The article says in part:
There is every reason to believe
that the khaki clad doughboy of the
Lightning Division can don his rain
in-the-face cap to Her Majesty, the
Statue of Liberty, before the canoeing
season has teen completed and there
is every chance in the world that the
old civilian summer camp of good
times can be rehabilitated this COM
ing summer, with all the pleasures of
ycre.
The official communication re-
ceived By the commander of the 18th
from CHIEF of Staff James w. Nc
Andrews. " by command of General
Porshing," gives the estimated ship
ping capacity for April at 221 900
men. Ma 24S,0 0 and June 270, 600.
BASED on the above estimate the
message states. divisions will return
to the United States in the following
order: April: 26th. 18th, SIND, 35th,
And; May: 32nd, 2Sth, 33rd, 80th,
18th: June: seth. Goth. 29th, 10Th"
The Flash" is a four page paper
in which every inch Is filled with
some item of interest to the men in
the various branches of the division.
Memorials to the fallen members of
the division, company notes, POEMS,
accounts of the part played by the
division in the heavy lighting and
humor aplenty make up the paper
which has a circulation of $4,000 and
"still going strong" as the publishers
put it. One item in the 312th Infan-
try notes mentions Perth Amboy but
just what the gist of ii Is we can't
exactly make out. Maybe you can.
AT any rate here it is just as 1t ap-
pears in the FLASH"
IL Abbh@af 1> '@S %N9
are nlanoeuvering nearly every day
no scaling ladders nevertheless they
arc m-anouvring nearly every day
and gass drill, IL is understood, is one
of the important branches OF the
training Just now. The men that were
gassed at Grandpre and were fortu-
nate enough not to be evacuated are
great little helpmates when 1t comes
to advice. Some of them have even
gone so far as to write and tell the
boys at home to beware the fumes
sven from the pencil factory at Perth
Amboy."
This pencil factory is a new one to
us, although we ave about every
kind of an industry there is here in
Perth A mboy.
One doughboy who signs himsel j.
A. NJ. contributes u little "pome"
which has a catchy swing to it al
though he has to stretch the English
language a bit to make 1t rhyme.
Here IT goes:
II long for Jersey City," sang the
youth, And it's a pity.
That we didn't fight the war from
over there;
For right around the horseshoe, I
know we could. with force do
Things to raise the well-known Ger
maD,s-hair.,
81 e so long as it's all finny. we're
through. s'help me Minnie.
And the sailing date has now been
: set for May;
/ mean II, L. not iokin', VIC can run
down to Hoboken
Aad find a Hun to fight most every
day..