Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 2 | Troops Reach Eastern Ports

TROOPS HEAGH EASTERN PORTS Units Arrive at Boston and New York From Overseas. NEW YORK, May 26. The steamer La Touraine, from Havft, today brought 465 troops, comprising the G'j6th, 697th, 709th and Tilth motor transport companies, complete, and casuals discharged or on furlough. The transport Tiger also arrived w;th the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-fourth, PJ'-Hh, 369th, 641st, 642nd. 6Mth and S02nd aero squadrons, totaling twenty-flvo officers and 1011 men. BOSTON. May US. Tho battleship Montana docked at noon today with forty-one officers and iw5 men of the 31 1 tli engineers, a western organization. The 314th engineer regiment Is a part of the Eighty-ninth division, made up of troops from Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Da-kota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. WASHINGTON, May 26. Expected transport arrivals announced today Include: In-clude: Fannonia, New York, June 4 Headquarters, Head-quarters, supply and medical detachment detach-ment s, companies A, B and C, th field battalion (317); t7th and 68th companies, transportation corps; sanitary squad &54; eight casual companies and seventy-three seventy-three casual officers. Frederick, New York, June 3 Headquarters Head-quarters detachment and troop 8th army corps; medical detachment and companies compa-nies A and D, 33rd engineers; sanitary squad 4; veterinary hospital 8; base, hospital hos-pital 131 ; aero squadron 25; two casual companies. Ancon, Newport News, June 3 SOlst pioneer infantry, balloon company 1, and one casual company. St. J.,ouis, New York, June 2 Army ambulance ser vice "secti oris 507, GOS, 518, 522, 524, 528, 531, 540, 543, 544, 548, 550, 556, &62, 564, 572, 582, 595, 605. 608, 610, 611 to 620. inclusive ; motor transportation transporta-tion service park units 312, 313 and 316; one casual company. Great Northern. New York, May 31 111th engineers; headquarters ambulance companies 141, 142, 143 and 144, 111th sanitary train ; detachment company L, 144th infantry; forty-four casual officers, five convalescent detachments. Patricia, New York, June 4 Company M, 144th infantry; 111th field battalion, 131st, 132nd n,nd 133rd machine-gun battalions; bat-talions; headquarters, headquarters detachment de-tachment and headquarters troop 36th division; di-vision; headquarters 71st infantry; postal and motor transport detachments, 36th division. Major-General AVilliam R. Smith, commanding com-manding 36th division, and Brigadier-General Brigadier-General Pegram Whitworth, commanding 71st brigade, are on board. Louisville. New York, June 1 Aero squadrons 22. 28, 94, 100 and 213; photo sections 4 and 6; mobile hospital 7; evacuation hospital 24; base hospital 89; company C, 501et engineers; company D, HJth ammunition train; two casual companies; com-panies; thirteen casual officers, and forty-three wives and 115 children of soldiers. . Dirlgo, New York, June 8 With few casuals. ! The Texas has been diverted from. Newport News to Philadelphia and is due May 28. The department announced that the reported sailing of the 312th machine-gun battalion, on the transport Virginian, which arrived . yesterday at Newport News, was an error. , The 311th battalion arrived on the ship.