The sun., 1919-02-12
LEYIATHAN ARRIVES
WITH 9,470 HEROES
Famous Negro Troops Of S71st
and 872d Infantry Loaded
With HOnOrs.
GEN. TRAUB A PASSENGER
Great Crowd Cheers Returning
SOldiers--Other Troop
T. ships at Port.

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fhe Ieviathan locked late yesterday
with more than 5000 negro and about
5000 white officers and men. When the
huge vessel warped In the military band
played and the crowds cheered. Never
before was such q rouslng scene enacted
on the, Hoboken waterfront
Among the $40 officers and men
was Major-Gen. Peter f. Traub OF New
York. a veteran of battles with the
Dakota Siouxs. the Philippine campaign
and until the beginning OF the great con-
hict professor OF Romance languages at
West Point. He went with the Twenty
sixth Division and was promoted for
gallantry to command the Forty-first or
Sunset Division.
Gen. Traub had little to say about his
own experiences. He was gassed four
times, but refused hospital treatment. be-
lieving he would recover quicker In the
open. He could not give enough praise
20 HE division and all the troops he had
seen in action. Some Of the members of
his staff. who returned with him, said
Gen. Traub had exposed himself with
his men Just like a private and that
they could not persuade him to keep out
Of danger.
Gen. Traub's division Is on the Atlantic
iomeward bound. II will be the first
division to return to America at full war
strength. having been built up after
heavy losses. OF veterans from almost
every sector In tine war area.
One of the most cheerful men aboard
The Leviathan was James Palmquist.
who lost both legs in the war. He Is
~ md Hia MD narenta
are waiting to greet him there. He said:
IT got twenty five machine gun bullets in
my legs in the Champagne drive October
Is. After a man gets that many bullets
he stops counting. We kept on and I
kept on as far as could go and We won
our objective. We did not hurry. be-
cause we were following a barrage at
a scheduled pace. When I got that
twenty-hfth bullet I thought I had my
share and quit. Some OF the boys were
killed. so ] consider myself lucky TO
come out with only two legs gone"
The 371st and 372d Infantry OF negro
have thirty-eight Distinguished Service
Crosses, 16S Crooks de Guerre and two
Legion Of Honor decorations to show
for their valor. They were brigaded
with the French. who decorated the
colors Of both regiments.
Two Other Generals Aboard.
Lieut.. Gen. Emile NJ. A. TaufIieb Of
the French army. an Alsatian who mar
ried an American girl. was among the
officers aboard. Others were Major-Gen.
II. W. Rogers and Brig. Gen. John F..
Madden. Among the passengers we're Miss
Julia A. Lathrop of the Children's Blu
reau. Department OF Labor s. S. Nc
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5rother-in-law OF President Wilson.
Major Charles E. Greenough. formerly
a broker of this city. returned at the
mead Of a battalion of the Thirty-seventh
Infantry. He assisted in the capture OF
seventy Germans who celebrated the
signing Of the armistice prematurely by
attempting to fraternize. One of the
Germans brought his wife into the lines.
She was sent back.
Lieut.. George Farrell OF the old Sixty
ninth. who lives in The Bronx. went
across as sergeant and was promoted
after being twice wounded at ct. Mihiel
and at Tours. He learned that his
father. Joseph. who is a sergeant. ar
rived home recently.
Three troop carrying steamships ar
rived in the morning. The Metapan,
from Brest. brought officers and III
women nurses from the Presbyterian
Hospital unit in France. In charge Of
Mrs ]. B. Christie. They have been
broad since May. 1917, and were shelled
from their hospital at Chateau Thierry
in July, when two patients were killed.
The Italian liner Duca degli Abruzzi
brought 1.64s officers and men. most Of
whom never had been IN action. The
Pasadena landed . officers and % on
listed men,.
British Aid U. 3. Troops.
The Cunarder Carmania. which landed
nearly 5000 Canadian soldiers at Hall
FAX on her way to this port from Liver
pool. brought Phillip Gibbs, war cor
respondent for the London Daily Chron-
Gle and London Daily Telegraph, who
crossed the German border Immediately
after the armistice was signed.
Sir Ashley Sparks. director-general OF
he Cunard Line. until recently director
GENERAL OF British shipping in the United
States. who explains he had gone to
England to be "dcmobilized." said that
IN tine return Of American troops the
British Government Is giving all pos
sible assistance. All transportation on
the sea, Sir Ashley said. now Is joint
affair OF Great Britain and the United
States and will be worked out In that
spirit.
John Galsworthy, who Is here to help
celebrate the centenary OF the birth of
James Russell Lowell. said he had been
with the Red Cross one winter and had
EDITED the magazine Revielle, published
In behalf OF disabled soldiers He said
he might present q new play to the
American public.
Brig Zen. Guy Livingstone. who was
n Captain OF Territorials in London when
the war started, and who became direc-
tor of the airplane organization In the
British War Office. was among the pas
sengers He said aero transportation
should be used as auxiliary and not as a
substitute for existing methods OF
travel and transportation that he would
advocate the announcement of flying to
some point such as Texas In preference
10 short distances where quick railway
service Is established. This would give
people confidence In aviation investment,
which was necessary to make flying a
commercial success.