New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-04-16

and then took channel boat for Ports
mouth. Although the feeling between
the Yanks and the English in general
was not very cordial, Mr.. Schmidt
says, the people Of Portsmouth treated
them really fine. They shared with
them whatever they had. But at other
places they did not find this good
comradeship.
Their destination was seaplane basgy
on the northernmosts shore of Ireland
But before they got there they We're
stationed for while at the central
naval flying station near Queenstown,
the American destroyer base in Ireland.
They crossed the Irish sea on mail
boat. It did not take them very long,
Mr.. Schmidt said, to find out that the
Irish were not very enthusiastic about
their coming and that they were treated
very coldly by them. Whatever they
were deprived of in friendliness OF the
people, they were largely compensated
for by the beautiful scenery Of the country
The news of the signing of the arrni-
stice reached him and his comrades at
the seaplane base in northern Ireland.
The population there was somewhat
mixed with Yankees and they found
more friendliness among the inhab-
itants. Mr.. Schmidt also mentioned
the fact that the planes stationed at
the last mentioned base were credited,
with the destruction of three submarines,
which was considered OF great military
importance, having direct bearing
on the activity of the U boats in that
neighborhood. About month after
hostilities stopped at the front Mr..
Schmidt was taken back to Liverpool
and there embarked on the Leviathan,
the former German liner Vaterland, the
second largest steamer afloat, with
5000 other sailors and soldiers. Ac-
cording to his story, there were about
1000 sailors on the ship while the re-
naming 5000 were wounded soldiers
from France.
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Arthur Sannwald returned to his home
in this city last week. He is glad that
he is among familiar faces once more.
He left New Ulm on the 22nd Of Septem-
Der, 1917, and was in training in Camp
Dodge until August, 1918, when he
went overseas. He was in service in
France for six and a half months and
during the latter part of the time was
located in the Alsace Lorraine sector.
Private Sannwald returned to the states
March 21st on the U. S. Louisville and
since then has been located at Grant
Central Palace, New York, near the
u. S. Detention hospital No. S,
from where he was transferred to Fort
Smelling and received his discharge
Four In Same Company.
Kurt Bell was another New Ulm boy
who returned during the course Of the
week. He was in Co. F, 160th reg,
10th Div, and was sent across on
August 8, 1918. While in the United
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camps, entering Camp Lewis, Wash,
after his departure from New Uln,
May 25, 1918. Two weeks later he
was sent to Camp Kearney near San
Diego, CAL, and from there he went
across the continent to Camp Mills,
his last station in this country. After
two months training at some place
in the center of France his regiment
received orders to go north to the Verdun
sector. Eight days later the arnlistice
was signed and they did not get into
the front lines.
In the same company with Mr.. Bell
were Bernhard Bauermeister, Henry
Able and Chas. jaime, all three New
Ulm boys and all back again with their
folks.