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Show FIRST OF NEGRO SOLDIERS HOME Lieutenant Relates Intense German Cruelty to American Amer-ican Officers. NEW TOKK, Dec. IS. The first detachment de-tachment of negro soldiers to come back from the war zone sot foot oil home soii again today wlien tho steamship Celtic reached her pier. The big liner arrived nf . T'l. - .-v iun mlu esteruay. one readied quarantine at dusk, but army authorities decided not to dock her at night. Tho Celtic left Liverpool December 8, bearing the headquarters medical detachment de-tachment and the Third battalion of the 814th negro infantry, comprising thirty-six thirty-six officers and 1119 men. In addition, there were five units of casuals, sixty-nine sixty-nine bedridden from disease and several sev-eral civilians. In tho total were 155 officers and 2122 enlisted men. Lieutenant John Donaldson, a Cornell graduate in the aviation service, told how he escaped from a German prison camp, and also related an instance of cruelty to a fellow officer. SSot down behind the enemy lines in September after he had won the distinguished flying fly-ing cross for bringing down nine Germans, Ger-mans, the lieutenant first tried to elude his captors by stealing a German plane, but was caught. Later, with Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Oscar Handel, ho had gone fifty miles from the camp on tho way .to freedom, free-dom, when he was bayoneted by a German Ger-man sentry. In this third attempt, Donaldson tramped 150 miles in twenty-eight twenty-eight nights, and made good his escape into Holland, whence he sailed for England. Eng-land. Another American, Lieutenant Anderson, Ander-son, who broke out of a prison camp, was overtaken and forced to walk back, a distanco of fifty miles, although wounded, Donaldson declared. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. Additional units overseas, including about 1500 officers of-ficers and men, assigned by General Pershing for early convoy home, were announced bv the war department today to-day as follows. The 35th, 140th, 15Sth, 173rd and 801st aero squadrons; companies com-panies A and 13, 26th engineers; 102nd and 111th trench mortar batteries; headquarters head-quarters 30th brigade, coast artillery. |