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Show Captain Mills Has Transport All to Himself on Trip (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) NEW YORK, June 9. It is not every soldier in the days of con-I con-I gested shipping who has a government govern-ment transport, capable of holding many more thousands, to bring him back in solitary glory to these shores, to say nothing of being welcomed wel-comed at the pier by five Ked Cross nurses, two Y. M. C. A. and two K. of C.. workers, armed with edibles edi-bles and smokes. This is what happened hap-pened to Captain M. D. Mills of Seattle, who arrived today on the transport Federal, after being greeted down the bay by a band on tho official boat Patrol, which meets tho troopships. No one could explain why a 1000-ton 1000-ton troopship, with a crew of a hundred aboard, should be allowed to leave Antwerp with a solitary soldier under orders to sail on that boat. AU the commanding officers know was that they had been given their sailing orders, and as "orders is orders," as Kipling once wrote, they simply carried .out tho idea cf "theirs not to reason why," aud pulled up anchor. All Captain Mills hicw was that he had been in-i in-i slrncted to go aboard tho Federal aud he obeyed. |