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Show DIVISION LOSES 1400 KILLED AND ABOUT 5G00 HURT NEW YORK, April IS. Ninetv officers and g"37 men of the Ninetv-first division, head-ri by Major General William H. Jonnston. the division's commander, ar- rt'.tvl h'ro today from Ht. N.iz.i!r nn Uio I MttMliii'lil ( 'u.auini -s. 'I'lft' ti'iiin am niiUoiial iiriny tut-n frum I'tah, W'asliln- ton. ni'iiii, ('ahfoihla, Ni-vada, llalio. Montana and yoinltm. t nits liu lii.l.-d tls lMn tu-ft'l'iuartiTB. ' d! vim on ln-aiiiixiai-tira troop and h-.ul-(liAirtoif tlta-hnnMit, division juiMtal d-tai-hm.-nt. dlvtMion train h-adviuari'r and ! tho nitlll.iry poilci. I'omjunv, (or fami'S ; Ktrny, I,'vis and I'uiuton, and th ' :Uttii t'liKLUfrs" fu-ld niul Mtaff. htad'piar-tiTH. htad'piar-tiTH. vitritmry and onlmicn arifl irit-ili'al detach nn' tun, i'iii;!iu-tr train and A to 1- 'oni I'.iri s, ini'itiMvo, for iiriiM I u'vt-n, 1 lx. lodt,-". KuriMon, I,mvs and Kurns. AIm on tho (i.ui;;nvs v.-r t-n o:fh and men listed Am nrlsoiit!". 1 f t.w Nine-ty-flrst dM.Hlon nitlitary poltro .'oinpany. 1 'lucu.s.Hiny thrt Ninety-first dU isl'iii's rasualtl-s. Major t,;- neral Johnston. who ! went abroad with th: rank of l)r.;id:-r K-'neral. natd thry wer not htriro "sshfii oho ronsldeid what the Ninety-first has doru'." The division lost 1 tO killed and more than ,"C'.0 u er Injured. Steal From Hospitals. "Wa had tite p rear est difficulty In keeping tho conval-s ent wounded inn in tho hospitals, and when, alter our nht-tnv nht-tnv In l hi A ronno wo w .-nt to BeUlum Hii.t fought In Flanders under the Miii; of the lteloans, many of our men utole from t he lios;ii tals. ot Into )o cars ami rejoined re-joined tlieir eoin;). inles," I'.eneraL Joim-sCon Joim-sCon said. "At least u t hom-atnl . of t he men wounded In t ho Argonne yut back to the division In this way." t'.eneral Johnston said he had written letters to the governors of the nortnwest.-prn nortnwest.-prn states whl'h contrinuted men to the NiiU'iy-first te'.Unt: huw tl.ese troons fount a nine-day ha t tie !n the Arcronne against cnu'k I'rusvian divisions and de-ff-att'd the Huns. thn hiked t'jr four das to reach railroad trains to take them lato fri-sh areas of battle. Ki e men of the Ninety-fir" t von the congressional medal of honor, tho k11-eral k11-eral said, and 100 officers and men the dLstinpu'.ahed service cross; Ud the Krem'h croix de Kierro and 15' the iieiian war , cross. The Ninety-first took as tro; hii-s ; artiilery Including otO heavy peices and 5co machine guns. j Captain and Men Capture Town. 1 company of the 316 t!i eniners returned re-turned wi;h thirty-one of its members decorated and proi:d of tho exploit of '.'HjitLitn Jv. l-.n H lx-avi il, a mmli eniner of Salt like, who with twelve men captured cap-tured a town after house-to-house fmht-inif fmht-inif for two days. Kvery American lived through it and none, was seriously wuiind-ed. wuiind-ed. Captain Lea veil and his men captured cap-tured thirty-five Huns and every douirh-toy douirh-toy received the distinguished service cross. i"aptain Leaved hiui offices with M. P. Kirk In tlie New:iouse huiidint?. The firm of Kirk A- Leave'.! had ben enaed on many prominent mirdnsr enterprises of the state. Roth Captain Leave!) and Mr. Kirk moved to Sua Francisco about two years nao. Companions of Private J. H. Iir.ie. ?ar.ta Clara. Cal., told of this so'd.or s achievement destroying a German airplane air-plane with a machine gun on the seat of an automohile in which Larue, as a chaui-feur. chaui-feur. was driving a colonel and a ma;or who were witnessing a battle between l'O a. lied and enemy machines. A Hun plane swooped toward the motor car and Larue brought it to earth and the two German occupants were captured. Privates Decorated. The Ninety-first's "fighting' parson" carno home. He is Captain Charles A. Kexroad. pastor of a Methodist Episcopal church in but :, Mont., and r.A brought with l".i:n the distinguished service cross, tiie He I lan cro;.v ce mierre and other honors, including a promotion won in ao- t:on at a time when he w -s enaped In Cie task of mak.r.p records of American dead on tie battltf:eld. A sniper tried to kill the "fi.chtiiitr parson."' who witli x?,o privates disposed of the sniper, located in a tree, and then discovered a German "pil! box." Privates David C. "Ware. Santa Ar.a. Cal.. and M. S. Crosiey, Seattle, were decorated for carrying messatres tiirouh enemy patrols while - the two were on motorcycles, six Germans bein kil -3. Captain Herbert C. Hoover, a California Califor-nia lawyer, jude advocate of the Ninety-first, Ninety-first, said the d. vision had only four cases of aen'-ral court martial. The Meatnship Oiiioan, fmhi Bordeaux, b r o u g r, t 1 f . y 5 troops, t r. e n ; a ; o r ; t y b e i n s members of the Fortieth division vformer national euard of California, Nevada. Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Xew Mexico . The Fortieth units were detachments totaling tliirteen o'ricers and Ic41 men of, the loV.h infantry and detachments totaling to-taling eighteen officers and 22 men of the 115 th sanitary train, for Camps Kearny, Grant, Gordon, Shelby, Dodge. 1 Funston. Sherman. Meade. Pike, Jack- i son. Dix and I evens. O thers on the Ohioan were pigeon company No. 1 and casuals and naval men. Fourteen hundred and fiiiy - one troops, largely members of the Ninety-firs: Ninety-firs: division, came into port on the transport Lancaster. Units included the Second battalion headquarters, medical detachment and E. F and G companies of the "S2nd infantry, twenty-'wo officers ! and 701 men: the headquarters supply section, sec-tion, medical detachment and A. B and C companies of the 316th signal battalion, ten officers and 441 men, and numerous casuals and casual units. There were UoO wounded aboard, including in-cluding the 1.5th and l?6th St. Nazaire convalescent detachments. The Ninety-first division units are ordered or-dered to western demobilization camps. Pigeon Is "Hero." Pigeon company No. 1 brought 1000 cages of feathered fighters, many of them veterans. The latter included 100 pigeons' captured from the Germans, and some of these Hun fliers still had attached at their necks the messages thei- bore when taken prisoner. The boche birds were distinguished dis-tinguished by leg markers embossed with profiles of the former kaiser. One pigeon, one leg missing, returned honored with a recommendation for- the distinguished service cross for services with the lost battalion. This bird made nine flights througn Heavy fire and bore a bullet scar on the breast which attested to its "heroism." Many American pigeons remained In Europe, having been purchased -by the Belgian government for breeding purposes. pur-poses. Doughboy brought others and will take them home. Pigeon company men returning today included Sergeant Swanker, Cleveland, credited with having sent the first American pigeon off with a message. One Officer Escapes. The 362nd infantrymen were commanded command-ed by Major Henry Edmonds of Los Angeles. An-geles. Captr.ln Lester E. Walbridge of E company, com-pany, who is editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara, Cal., Daily News, told of the loss of all but. thirtv of the 21t men of his company - in action.' He was th; onlv officer who escaped injury or death, he said. Duncan McRae of Helena. Mont., who went overseas as a sergeant, returned w tth a commission as second lieutenant and a D. S. C. for locating and sketching the position of a nest of machine guns under heavy fire. CAMP MILLS, N. Y., April 15. Thirty-nine Thirty-nine officers and lr?6 men of the 364 :h infantry. Ninety-first division, left here todav for Camps Lewis. Dodi:e, Grant and Kearny and Fort Russell, Wyo., for demobilisation. de-mobilisation. WASHINGTON, April 15. Transport sa ilir.gs were announced today o.a follows fol-lows : "The transport Retina d'lta'ia. cut at New York April 26. has on board the headquarters detach merit. supply and medical def.chmenLs and companies A. K and C of the 114th field baua'ion. signal corps, and thirty-one casual companies for various stales. The transport Cape May, due at New Y"ork April 26, !s bringing the headquarters headquar-ters and medical detachments, companies A to F. inclusive, of the 16th engineers: Thirty-ninth and Eighty-fourth con .panics, .pa-nics, traisport;' lion corps, and twenty-five twenty-five casual officers. The transport South Pole is due at New York about April 2S with a few casuals. |
