Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-14
NEWPORT NEWS CREETS
TROOPS OFF FOUR SHIPS
Transports Zcclandiu and .teolus.
Freightcr West Point and
BattIcship Ohio Dock.
VIRGINIANS AMONG ARRIVALS
Several Richmond Men, Including
Casuals, Land at Homo Port After
Battles Abroad-NorfoIk Nurse
Returns on Sick Leave.
AMONG ARRIVALS


NEWPORT NEWS, VA. March l;.-
More than 5000 officers and men.
among them Virginians scared in the
inferno Of tho world war, arrived to.
day on four ships. the battlcship Ohio.
the transports Icclandia and Aeolus
and the freshtcr West Point.
The Ohio had on board the first anti
aircraft sector and a few casuals. Tho
Zeelandia brought back the Fourth
Coast Artillery Corps and large num-
Der of sick and wounded. The Acolus
mad on board the Scventy-ffth Coast
Artillery Corps. and the One Hundred
and Thirty-hrst Field Artillery. There
were about 100 casuais aboard the
tshtel< West Point. With The OK
ception OF the sick and wounded and and
tn. casnals.. relatively few of the men
Tho ,S! came game In today had seen action.
at,i, i'if first Hntiaircraft Sector was on
aCtiVc service for some months re.
PeiiinS enemy aircraft attacks.
MI four ships reported a very good
voyage, although the Acolus WAS scy-
lev days bad weather. The battIeshjn
cnio was forced IL nut into the Azores
fo- Coal
NEWPORT NEWS CITIZENS
WELCOME TROOPS HOME
Ne*pcrt News put in the mos, of the
DAY welcoming, the returning heroes
dtn:i 5aek to & their native land. The Ohio
Snfsea Sniss hrs:. Eeforc the troops had
Aeoius ,dccked y few minutes later
the zeelandia was warped into one OF
tne piers Hundl eds of school chill
area or triumph - welcome the men.
Horn, flags. y"lls. cheers and fears
played prominent part in the cello
Here and there us troops swung
PAST on their way 20 camp some WON.
an Wonid dasn cut from the crowd with
arms about tie neck of n sturdy hnr,.
The officers Usually allowed these men
10 fO,endi fail % out although most of the
men accompanied them most of The
way to the camps. '"'
Mrs; r. NJ. Stovali. wife OF the am
the Aeolus. She was accompanied on on
Miss Annette c. Light, Of Sarin,T,!: "a!
Mich, winner of the Lorraine Cross FOR
bravery under fire. ''
RICHMOND MEN AMONG
RETURNING DeNGHBoYs
Nirgtnians who came in IN. the fopr
Snfps were; First Lieutenant George
SSaaskson, SasE Eentresss; First Lieutenant
captaia nshae Walter II a teengaaaker g aaxsr Norfolk
First Lieutenant Charles e. plv,M' pynr
puiaSki; CAPTAIN Lester Gaye. Ports.
noI; noutn; Captain Raymond a. Fairless.
Forge; owen N. Wood. Poindexter. dtgh
samuel Pyle. Portsmouth; Walter y.
inond mgle; Oh i,,a,. East Franklin Street Rich
store: John NJ. Highes. 2i0l-A Wesi
si, Main Street. Richmond; Oscar W.
smith Madison; Charles Akers. Roa-
noke; William Collins. Dublin: I NJ
Herbert. Naborly: James e. Feivev
- North Twentyscventh Street
Isichmond; Rufus Pillows. 2322 Mar,
Htollinsworth 700 Fairfax Avenue. Nor
Most of the men in the above lis,
came back as sick and wounded Xii
are now on the road to recovery and
are ANXIOUS to secure their discharge
front the service at the earliest nos
Ncr:olk Red Cross nurse, saw Ions, and aud
hard service in the Ambulance Gorne
IN france. She came back on the sicl,
tiso, a, out expects to be fully recovered