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Show FIRST ARTILLERY pfflyfiK Western Men Are Among Troops to Be Discharged at Camp Dodge. NLW 0UK. May C.Tlie l'irst army artillery parU, with the exception of U truck companx-, and comprising tidrty-sil officers ami J;dl' men, arrived today on tho transport C'anonieus. b'our casual officers of-ficers and two civilians woro pa.sseup"ers. The troops will bo demobilised at Camp Dodse. The First army artillery park comprises com-prises former California artillery corps men, mosiiy of San Francisco, and Chicago Chi-cago and other middle west troops, and returned in command of Colonel William H. Tobm of tiio resulai' army. Tho unit saw str ice al St. Mlhiel ami on tho Mouse, Arsonno, Chaui'ai;no and Yevdun iroTits. The oO.nd encineors, (minding many replacemen ts. ret urucd today on the N leuw A nisterdani, in ci' in maud of Colonel Frank A. Gelstit'S. a construction construc-tion engineer of Now York and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The unit went huo notion first In the Yosos. It huili fourteen bruises across the Yesle ri'er. The unit suffered 4t0 casualties am tun; tlie 1 70 c men. tifficern reUirnliiK loda' included Major Charles I". t'oiiiilas. I.eadi!le, Colo.; Captain Uaiuil:on U. Muury, Cenxor, and Captain Alfred D. t'olior. 'ortland, Cre. WASHINGTON', May 1.. Transport sailings were announced today a-; fobows; The Giuseppe Verdi, duo a: New York on May 12, has on hoard the Seventy-eighth Seventy-eighth division theatrical unit. Si'i'.rd Ino-bile Ino-bile ordnance repair shop, 30 T tli field artillery, ar-tillery, 1 1 OS t ii air seiwice squadron, tho.'".h aero squadron and ei.u u casual officers. T h e Fee r 1 es s w ill a r r i v o a t N e w o i-'k about May lo with headquarters, ordnam-e j and medical detachments. A. H, C and It companies of the lOSth maciiine-sun bat-t:i.lioa; bat-t:i.lioa; headquarters of the First, Second and Third battalions, sanitary, ordnance and veterinary detaobmems. A to F batteries, bat-teries, inclusive, of the lusth field artil-lerv, artil-lerv, and a deta chnienl of M company, 110th infantry. The battles Georgia is due at Boston on May V2 with the l:'lst fietd artillery, less a det r.ehment. Tiie following organizations have been assigned to early convoy: Headquarters and headquarters troop. Eightieth army eorps; 21-tih military police po-lice company; .'TStli engineers. NICE, France. Thursday, May 1. The Nioe recreation area for American expeditionary expe-ditionary troops, it was announced today, wi:l be .-losed Mav -'2, owinc to the celerity celer-ity with which the troops are returning home. The general council of the department de-partment of Aires- Ma ri rimes has adopted a resn'ution paying tribute to the excellent behavior of the American soldiers here. |