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Show Homecoming Yanks Reach Port 5-Troop-Ships-Leave-France . , Three Transports Arrive in New York Bringing Many Classes. NEW VOHK. Iec. 21.-Bringing ham 2141 officers and men of th American espedltloiuiry force, th Hrltish steamship l Baltic of the Whit fritur line paaard ISandy Hook at :4U a. m. today. Th army trnHMrt Mtaan, with thirty-seven offlrH and twclv enlisted en-listed men. dlchargd from the American Ameri-can expeditionary lore and bound for their homea. docked her today. The Canard liner Waliner (atl. wllh aeveral hundred paiisengera. in-c.lidlng in-c.lidlng many lied Cros. Y. M. C. A. and Knight of Columbua workers, alau came Into port. Thousands Sailing Today Will Spend Christmas j on High Seas. By Associate Praaa. WASHINGTON. Iec. 11. Kalllng of five transports bringing homa troona from France wm announced today by the war department. The 1-a France sailed December 1? with 36H offlcera. ;IJT men. 11 nuraea. 16 Frnch mtailon offlcera and aeveral rlvlllana. On tha lath th Aeolula sailed with 29?9 alck and wounded. Including 106 offlcara. Tha Tllaondarl aalled on tha llth with eighteen offlcera and aeventy n-Mated n-Mated men, tha Hajnland on-the 17th with eight offlcera and four civilians Tha offlcera on the Baltic numbered j aevenly-three. Thirty-eight officer and 1070 men comprised compantea 1067, IOEiS. 1HA9. 1S". 10(1, 101 and 1MS4 of th Winchester casual, contingents con-tingents that have been In training In Winchester. Knglanr.. Thera were also six officer and ki men alck and wounded. Including twenty litter cases tend two mental cases. ana in icrsnie on in i.wi wilm vm.w 'casual enlisted man. Th battleship Arlsona, th first of j Americas fleet of dreadnought which saw aervlc In th North aea to return I to American waters, arrived at New tYork today, four day In advance of' ith llm of her eapected arrival, Christmas day. Th Arixona left llrest I on December 14. |