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Show Q1ST UNITS ARRIVE 01 BOARD THE LEVIATHAN Huge Ocean Carrier Reaches U. S. With the Largest Crew Ever Transported by Vessel. Utahn Wearing Belgian War Cross Is Among i Number of 361st In- i i fantry Reaching Home, i . j NEW YORK, April 2. With 12,053 troops on board, the steamship Leviathan I arrived here today from Brest. There i were Email detachments of the Ninety-first Ninety-first division troops and 77 officers and 1044 men sick or wounded, together witn a few casuais and nurses. The Ninety-first division units were forty officers of the 347 th artillery, for Camp Kearny, and thirty-two officers ot the S4St"n field artillery, for Camp Fur.-ston. Fur.-ston. Including the crew, there were in all 14.426 aboard the Leviathan, said to be the largest number of human beings ever transported on one vessel. The previous record was 13.56$, which the Leviathan carried over last August. More Ninety-first division men arrived when the steamship Liberator docked here from St. Nazaire. These were the 363rd infantry headquarters of the Third battalion and D. L, K, L and M companies, com-panies, twenty-three officers and men. for Camp Kearny. The 363rd comprises com-prises Califoznians,-most of them from San Francisco. 91ST TROOPS ON ORIZABA. The steamship Orizaba, from St. Nazaire, brought Ninety-first division troops also. Including the following: One Hundred and Eighty-first infantry brigade headquarters, six officers and nineteen men, including Brigadier General Gen-eral John B. McDonald, commanding, for Camps Kearny, Lewis, Sherman and Upton; Up-ton; S64th infantry's headquarters o( First and Second battalions and C. D, E, F, G and H companies, twenty-nine officers offi-cers and 1379 men. for nine camps; 34Sth machine-gun battalion's headquarters, medical and ordnance detachments, and A, Bf C and D companies, eighteen officers offi-cers and S L 7 men, for seven camps; 351st infantry's regimental headquarters and headquarters and supply companies, twenty-one officers and 495 men, for tix camps. Also on the Orizaba were base hospital 94 for Camps, Bowie. Dodge and Funs ton, a few casuals and nurses and six officers and 392 men sick or wounded. Altogether, Alto-gether, the Orizaba brought 3301 troops MEN ABOARD WIN HONORS. Colonel Avery D. Cummins. A regular army officer of Spokane, Wash., in command com-mand of the 361st infantry, who whs aboard with his staff, wore a D. S. C. for gallantry In leading his troops in the cap-I cap-I ture of the town of Gesnes, France. Others aboard were Chaplain John W. Beard of Hoquiam. Wash., formerly pastor of the Fi rst Presbyterian church there, who carried many wounded men to saiVty throush heavy shell rire in Belgium, for which he received the French croix do. guerre with palm ; and Sergeant Harold C. Moore of Los Angeles, Ca!., a member of the 34Sth machine-gun battalion of tnc Ninety-lirst division, who set a machino gun in an open field in Belgium, destroyed an enemy machine-gun nest in a ruined building and enabled the infantry to advance ad-vance to an attack. Sergeant John Christiansen of Tudoc. Mont., another arrival, was the proud possessor pos-sessor of the decoration of the Belgian order of Leopold II, received for carrying munitions to guns and rations to wounded wound-ed under heavy shell tire, although himself him-self badly wounded. Belgian war crosses were displayed by two messengers or "nmners." who. unde'" fire, maintained communication by liaison officers. They were Privates Stua't Kin soli of Teedee, Mont., and John L Whiting of Ogden. Utah. TALES OF BRAVERY ARE RELATED. Captain Arthur St. John cf San Francisco Fran-cisco wore a Belgian cross for "coolness under heavy tire in Flanders." Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Robert F. Garner, Jr.. also of San Francisco, received a similar decoration for leading a platoon in the face of bm'-: enemy lire in Belgium. Lieutenant W. L. H. Osborne of Rose-burg. Rose-burg. Ore, also was among the officers. He was with the "i.th machine-gun battalion, bat-talion, which suffered between r:u and 300 casualties, it was said, of whom forty 'were killed. Brigadier General McDonald brought back with him the D. S. C., the British D. S. M- and the Belgian cro:x de guerre. He has been ordered to directly to the Presidio reservation in San Francisco, where he will take charge of the army base there. His brigado was heid as reserve unit in tho St. Mihiel bat tie. out got action later in the Argon no sector, and wound up their active lighting with the "Army of Liberation"' under King Albert in Belgium. Ta'.t-s of the general's bravery and t ho examulo he set to his troops by his disregard dis-regard of Hying shells were told by ud the ofiicers on board. Losses of the "61st regiment were given as 352 killed and 1000 wounded. Mayor Roloh of San Francisco, who wcl- (Continued on Pagf 3, Column BIST UKITS ARRIVE ON BOARD THE LEVIATHAPJ (Continued from Page Ono.) j coined California troops arriving ester- day. was a'ain on hand to erect the boys on the Orizaba and t ie (.'alifornians ao on the Liberator. The two ships came up the bay neck and neck, although the Liberator left France ix davs be;oro lite Orizaba. General McPonald's decorations wore awarded for couraceons and eonsr-icijous leadership of the lMst Infantry brigade in tho lirst and second phases of the Meuse-Aronne Meuse-Aronne offensive and L lie Lys-Scheldt oi-fensive oi-fensive later. Aniongr the returning o:'tlc.rs were Lieutenant Lieu-tenant S. H. l'fuud of S;tn Krancisco. Lieutenant Uil Lane of Neaperce. Ma.: Capta.in W. G. Larker. rt-imental Mirj-'eon of L'ashmore, Wash.; Captain L. K. Savaue. supply oiri-er of Spoka no. Wash. : Captain Jacob Kanzeter, personnel person-nel officer, and Major H. M. Kasch. commanding com-manding the Second battalion of the 36i:h infantry, of 1'ortland, Ore. |