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Show . B1 LONE SOLDIER . GETS ROYAL WELCOME ON TRANSPORT y Associated Freee. NEW YORK, Dec. IS. One solitary I doughboy, being the only trooper aboard the transport Oregonlan, which arrived from France today, received aa I royal a welcome home as If he had (been an entire regiment. The Orego-! Orego-! uian was met down the bay by the police boat Patrol, with the mayor's welcoming committee on board, tha Police Po-lice Glee club, and Women police re-aerves, re-aerves, s in-the case of other transports. trans-ports. Over the mil leaned the one American Ameri-can soldier. He appeared startled when the police boat's siren let nut mighty blast, then waved his band and danced ecs t a t ic a 1 1 y w hen he f ou nd out wha t 1 it waa sll aoouL Hhe bowed appre- . ; datively whin the Glee club rendered "Home, ISweet Horn," and proved an j adept at catching cigarettes, with I which he waa pelted by the women police reserves, all of which was according; ac-cording; to the uaual program of wel-I wel-I com. I The lone soldier was Sergeant jjand A ' n'-fmin. headquarters troop. Heccnd division, who was bringing heme "Joe." the favorite charger of Mtflr General Omar Bunay, whose troops stopped the Germans on the Murne. The warhorse carried the gen- leral In this and other engagements I In which his troops participated and . ! .will l delivered t hia master t in ? j Wnahlngton, f Kaufman. duehrt at Chateau I Thierry as a platoon leaVr bi 'he Ninth In fan try. was g assd (u4 wuuBded m the Itg oo July 4. |