| Show r t N RAl HIN I GRIES IV fA FACTS T Tm H m f Olm Noted Utahn Home on Visit Says Records Were Broken in Bringing Our OurI I Troops From Fra France c OF F American sol sob sobi j j i Biers diers who were overseas at atthe atthe the time of the the si signing of the I armistice on November 11 all have been Jetur returned cd to America I but This is the information information brought to I 1 Ii i Salt falt Lake by Brigadier Brigadier dier General Frank T T. Hines chief chic of the tho transportation service of the war department who whon I n f i rived from flom Washington D D. C C. C. C to today today today to- to day to address the Bonneville club Thursday evening at the Hotel Utah I and to join his family which has been awaiting his arrival here I RECORD IS BROKEN Ten ren thousand American soldiers I daily dally were lvere ero sent across the ocean to I the war zone during June and July 1918 1018 Eleven thousand soldiers daily dally i I were embarked in France for their return to their homes in America In July of this year breaking the record II established in sending them over General Tunes Hines declared today General Hines was selected chief of I Ithe Ithe the staff of embarkation service of I Ithe Ithe Ithe the war var department in August 1917 j i when the new department was created He served in that capacity until until I commencement nent of 1918 when he was w promoted from captain to the grades I of ot major lieutenant colonel colonel and brigadier general From December December December Decem Decem- ber 1917 throughout the war General General General Gen Gen- eral Hines served as chief of embarkation embarkation embarkation em em- service and nd later as chief of or transportation service and he still occupies that position ONLY SEVEN SHIPS When hen General Hines took charge of the tr transport service for the army early in 1917 there were only seven troop ships actually under the control of oC the war department and the majority majority majority ma ma- of these were operating In the Pacific lIe He said that a start was made by chartering a few of the American American American Amer Amer- ican merchant steamers Immediately at hand and at the end of June 1917 there were in the service seven troop troopships troopships troopships ships with a deadweight of tons and six cargo ships with Ith a deadweight of tons From this small beginning begin begin- 5 fling ning General Hines lures declares there was developed a trans-Atlantic trans fleet which on November 1 aggregated vessels with a a. total deadweight of tons In addition to this a cross channel channel channel chan chan- nel service fleet was built up numberIng numbering number- number Ing approximately vessels with an aggregate gate tonnage of tons The seizure by the United States government of the tho German Interned ship ships In tha the fall of 1917 1117 added tons and also the seizure of the Dutch ships In the spring of 1918 gave the transport service additional tons according to General Hines GENERAL DECORATED DECORATE During the first month of the war there was dispatched abroad 1718 personnel personnel personnel per per- pertaining to the army in June 12 and by the end of the year troops and approximately marines marines marines ma ma- rines had b been en embarked according 0 o General Hines One hundred and eighty British ships were used in landing the great American army in France during the war General declared Besides the war distinguished service service service ser ser- vice cross and the navy distinguished service cross General Hines limes has been decorated for his services in behalf of the allies by the King of England with the Ord Order Ord i of the Bath by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Sacred Treasure by bv the president of France w with ith the Legion of Honor and by the King of Belgium with the Order of LeopoldI Leopold I I am mighty glad to get back to Salt Lake m my home city General Hines declared at the Hotel Utah upon his bis arrival from the station Mrs Hines and the two children will accompany General Hines back to Washington after a couple of we weeks weeks' ks' ks stay in Salt Lake Major II H G G. L L. Strange of the Royal British Engineers who is to be one of the guests g of honor at the Bonneville Bonneville Bonne- Bonne ville club dinner tomorrow evening has also arrived in the city Major Strange saw service in most of the British battles from the Somme in 1916 to to the battle of Amiens in III 1918 He was wounded three times time Major l Strange was awarded the military cross for meritorious conduct in the battle e of A Arras I |
