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Show Giant Transport Bring 9,000 American Veter- i ans From Overseas, j WOUNDED ABOARD) Commandant M Marine Corps Returns With Heroes of War. NEW01 YORK, Dec. 1G Her decks swarming with nearly 9,000 blue and khaki clad veterans of America's overseas ov-erseas service, the liner Leviathan, which foiled five submarine attacks while transporting troops lo France, docked today. The former German liner came up the bay amid a din surpassing in volume vol-ume any previous welcome to returning return-ing troop ships. Of her sick and wounded, 14 officers and 1,421 men, the majority were on deck, while her rails were lined with almost 5,000 naval na-val officers and men. veterans of the submarine defense patrol off the French and British coast, and 2,500 soldiers, heroes of bitter fighting. The naval contingent included men both from fleet and aviation units. Major-General Barnett, head of the marine corps, returned from two and a half months spent in Paris and at the front full of enthusiasm over the record of his fighters from Chateau Thierry to the end of the war He said the marines were "wonderful" and the only complaints were those of the wounded denied a chance to go back to the front. |