Evening star., 1919-04-30
MORE TROOPSH|PS
REACH new YORK
Transports Also on Way to
philadelphia, Racing Up
the Delaware.
GOVERNOR TO MEET MEN

Py the Associated Press.

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NEW YORK, April 3o.-Thirty-siS
officers and 1879 men of the 77tf
uiberty) Division. largely New York
drafted men. arrived here today from
Brest on the steamship Louisville
which brought altogether 2.33S troops
Ss members of soldiers and sailors
families, and 50 sailors and civilians.
Seventy-seven units included the
so5th Infantry's medical detachment,
I'd Battalion Headquarters and Com
panies f. G and H. is officers ano
7s5 men. for Camps Dix. Gordon. Sher-
man, Taylor. Grant, Pike. Funston
Lewis and Upton; headquarters de-
tachment of officers and 80 men, Tor
Camp Upton. and the 302d Field Signal
Battalion. 3O2d Mobile Ordnance Repair
Shop, 302d Mobile Veterinary section.
202d Sales Commssary initial for
Camp Upton.
Fourteen officers and 6i7 men. all
except Company H of the I'd Battalion
of the 162d Infantry t41st DIVISION.
former national guard of Washington.
Oregon. Montana. Idaho and Wyom :
inE), returned on the Louisville. to-
sether with 81 wounded or sick
officers, men and nurses.
On Regina dItalia.
On the steamship Regina dItalia.
from Marseille, where 1873 troops.
including nine officers and 444 men
comprising a headquarters detach-
ment. supply and m medicai a nd dstacnf =. If
the 114th Field Signal Battalion tS9th
Division, former National Guard OF
Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas)
forI Camps Beauregard. Pike. Sheri-
dan. Sherman Upton and Gordon. The
other troops were casuals-New
Hampshire. IS: Massachusetts. As;
Pennsylvania. 103; New York, IL;
Indiana 2s: Colorado. II; South Da-
kota. %: Wyoming. 81; Alabama, IS;
Georgia IS: Tennessee. Is: Iowa. 10;
tered casuals of the marines. Regu-
lar Army and colored troops.
Transports at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA. April 3o.-The
transports Pocahontas and Mercury.
bringing home nearly 5000 Iron Dl-
vision men. are coming up the Della
ware but a few minutes apart. The
112th Infantry Regiment is virtually
complete upon the two ships, parts
being on each. The Pocahontas
40 am. and the Mercury came in
ten minutes later.
They probably will arrive here between
: and ; o'clock this afternoon and it is
aryopen question which will dock first.
Engineers on both vessels are crowding
on, all steam possible to win the race
for their contingent of Keystone state
herpes by landing them first. The Poca-
hontas is twenty-four hours ahead of
schedule and the Mercury is at least four
days ahead. not being due here until
Sunday.
Each has one distinguished passenger.
On the Mercury it is Maj. Gen. Charles
II. Muir, the Uncle Charley of the
doughboys, commander of the 2Sth Di-
vision. On the Pocahontas is a baby.
Wireless dispatches received late yester-
day afternoon told of the infant being
on the ship. and it is believed here it was
boFn at sea. There are three woman pas-
sengers. wives of soldiers. on the ship.
Three vessels left Philadelphia this
morning with Gov Sproul, Adjt. Gen.
Beary and members of state commit
tee. members of the Philadelphia well
coTpe homo committee and relatives of
the men ON the Pocahontas. All the
bosts were gayly decorated with the state
and national colors and with great "wel-
come home" streamers flying from mast
heads.