Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-02-28 | Page 3 | Storms Fatal to Yanks on Way Home

STORMS 10 M fATAl TO YAS O Mt Battleships Bring 2000 to toi i America Trip Taking j ti i Sixteen Days t By Associated Press I NEWPORT NEWS Va Feb Th The battleships Virginia and Rhode Island nd docked here today after aner a a. strenuous sixteen day trip from Brest and debarked mare re than 2000 returning Aboard the Virginia were the First trench mortar battalion the Four Hun Hun- dred Eighty eighth aero squadron and they thai Three Hundred Fifth trench mortar mor- mor tar battery The Rhode Island brought the thO One Hundred seventh Forty ma- ma chiho gun battalion tie Eight Hundred Hun Hun- dred drad Fortieth aero squadron and several sev- sev eral Missouri casual companies sev-I. sev to The Virginias Virglnia's contingent is said have e suffered greatly during the I storms at sea There were several de deaths I The First trench mortar battalion had representatives from twenty twenty- t states The unit had been In France thirteen months and had fought at Chateau Thierry the Argonne St. St I and Thiaucourt