New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Two Transports With 1900
Landed at Hoboken; All
of "All-American'' Unit
To Be Home by Friday
Pershing Is Due Sept. 8
Date of Fifth Avenue Pa.
rade Is Set Tentatively as
Second Day Following

ing
The historic 1st Division, selected
By General Pershing for the most diff
fcult tasks of the American contin-
gent in France, will be at home in it's
entirety by September 5.
Two shiploads OF the fighting men
morning, while bands played and flags
waved, just as they did when the men
sailed away more than two years ago.
The waving flags and active bands
were especially remarked by the re-
turning soldiers, since theirs was the
only division to sail away openly, with
music and floating colors.
Pershing Due September 8
The transports Orizaba and Pas
torres carried nearly 1900 officers and
men Of the division. On September 3
the transport Freedom will bring an
other large body OF the regulars home
and on the two days following the re-
nlainder Of the division Will have been
landed General Pershing and his
staff, who Will sail on the Leviathan,
are expected to arrive about Septem-
ber S.
The story of the deeds of the 1st
has been written in statistics that
never Will be forgotten by members of
that body.
The normal strength Of the division
was 21.000 men.
The total casualties of the division
during the WAT we're 1882
The statistics, more than the / 400
decorations worn by the returning
men, prove that General Pershng used
the mn of this division. with which
he was most closely associated on the
Mexican border. IS the shock troops
Of the American expeditionary forces
Trimmed Ranks Rehllcd
Daring the Two years the division
VS. seeing actual fighting in France
is 74n0s We're being thinned by enemy
guns and reflied with replacement
troops. Slightly more than 10000 re-
Ii-e mon. troops took their places in
the lst during the days il was pound
inc IFS way through the German lines.
Upon the bows Of t<e two transports
tat carried the first contingent Of the
division lp the bay yesterday were
printed Tie words The war is over.
The is here
Majat General Edward T NcGlack-
lin "ho led the fighting men into Ger
r7@-v mmedilteiv after the signing of
tine arr'sfice, gupet ard hesitated
.or- Sine when asked to say some
ta.a- shout the men Of his command
"Ine1e are no words 10 .eu what
think Of the 1st Division,r he SAID at
las. II, was the happiest moment OF
H. lie wren General Fsrshing AS
sgrod ne to this division They're
great. But please don't call this the
'heslcat division or the hard fighting
or heroic DIVISION It's the all-Ameri-
can division, made up OF men from
eyery state in the Union"
S4,C c,e4nd ~ PiItrora
The yeneral and mis- staff, along with
the officers who are to make up the ad
vance committee Of arrang gements for
the reception to General Pershing, went
al once to headquarters that had been
provided for them at the Biltmore.
Otner headquarters were opened in the
Hall OF Records. where d representa-
tive OF the division will work with the
Mayors Committee of Welcome to
Homecoming Soldiers in arranging the
Pershing Homecoming programme.
conference Of the advance officers
and represen tatives OF local commit
tees tnat are handling the homecoming
plans was set for Tuesday afternoon at
the Biltmore. The tentative date Of
the parade on Fifth Avenue-Septem-
her 1O-was said to be acceptable, and
the plan 10 march down Fifth Avenue
instead of up. as other returning sol
oers have done, was accepted by Lieu
tenant Colonel Paul +. Peabody, who
IS in charge of the arrangements for
The division.
ton and other details Of the celebration
at the Capital will be worked out
later The finishing touches will not
be added to the programme for either
New ! ork or Washington until General
Pershing reaches some point within
comfortable wirelessing distance OF the
city
No Admirers of Germans
Members OF the 1st, from the COM
nander Of the division on down to the
priyates, brought back stories OF un-
pleasant relations with the Germans,
both before the signing OF the armistice
part of the American army of occu-
patton.
"The American soldiers admire the
Germans for their technical ability but
hated them as men and women" said
Genera McGlackiin. We Americans
are said TO be bad when it comes to
Chasing the dollar; but the Germans
have Us beaten in every department OF
that game. The first thing they did
mercialze the iron cross.
The food situation is very bad in
Germany. All the Germans appear to
Be undernourished or the victims OF
improperly balanced ratlons. We were
greeted by many children in the streets
o. Germany. Just as the newspapers
have said; but there were no children
under two years of age. The mothers
o! Germany had been so undernour-
lShed that few children were born dur
Ing the last two years of the war"
Demobilization Scheduled
Reports that the division probably
would be sent at once to the Mexican
border because of threats of trouble
there could not be verified by General
McGlachlin. He said that all but $500
OF the members of the division were
replacement troops who had enlisted
Tor the period of the war and that
they would be demobilized and sent to
their homes.
Major Charles s. Coulter, who is of
Ieneral McGlachlin's party, has pre-
pared a history of the division, which
VIII be made public next week. This
history, he said, was one of the en-
listed man, rather than the officers,
general staff, or the 'back Of the lines"
Organization.
;. The enlisted men of this division
oid the real fighting" he said. "They
were IN touch with the Boche all the
Time. Tme. They were giving their lives.
ihey deserve all the credit in the
world for what they accomplished"
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