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Show FIVE TRANSPORTS FROM FRANCE IN NEW YORK PORT NEW YORK. July 9. PITS tran-l ports the Nansemond, from Brest; the Marica and De d Italia, from Mer? seilles, and the Santa Olive and Deep-i Deep-i water, froni Bordeaux, arrived here '.o day with 301 officers and 10.584 troop Unites aboard the Nansemond Included In-cluded Companies II L and M, Sti2n l pioneer infantry Companies C and 1 . :310th service battalion: 325th clothing land bath unit; Twelfth veterinary DOB-pital; DOB-pital; 331st and 365th bakery com i panies; 314th, 316th, 375th, 479th, 826th, S33rd to 836th motor transport companies; truck companies l to 10 I Inclusive; 23rd engineer motor tram headquarters; 327th and 33Dth butch-cry butch-cry companies. 40th and 75th earn panics (transportation corps); (2nd and 46th depot service companies 1 85th ?ero squadron, and 2ft t h evacua tion hospital. The Marcif had aboard the 101st I base hospital units; 120th ba,se hos-pitaj hos-pitaj and hospital center (Tours);1 j Companies A, B and C, 129th engineers i headquarters detachment; 64th sani ,tary squad; group D headquarters dc- j tachments; sections 13 to 16 Inclusive ! 1327th motor transport corps, repair I iiuii, uunu MiiJiji company, quarcci-' quarcci-' mastr corps. Il8th and I82nd companies, com-panies, transportation corps; the 43rd; motor supplv train company, and I64th casual company (Illinois). The Re d'ltalia brought 46 officers and 1 731 enlisted men casuals rep-I rep-I resenting every state In the union. Aboard the Santa Oliva were the 248th company, A S. C ; 125th com- j pany (transportation corps). 148th motor truck company; Company C, '36th engineers (Alabama), 334 n 'butchery company; 310th tire company, com-pany, Quartermaster corps; 301st railroad rail-road supply detachment; Sixth depot service company (Tennessee); r,ii' i cfi jgerating plant compan;. ; 32ft:a supply compan 32uth motor trans- I port corps; 399th motor truck com- j pany 810th and 706th service units, and casuals An ordnance convov detai hment and rasuals were the only troops aboard the Deepvvaier Among the officers aboard was Kn-sign Kn-sign Fran!; Monro pion of Denver winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor which was awarded tor bis "extraordinary "ex-traordinary heroism" when the freight or Florence H., loaded with explosives, blew up in Quideron bay, 100 miles' south of Brest on April 17, 1918. Ensign I'pton was on the destroyer Stewart He stripped off most of his clothing, dunged into the wreckage-Strewn wreckage-Strewn water and rescued several of the crew of the Florence H, who had been blown overboard Forty men were killed by the explosion. HONOLULU, T H , July 9. The United States army transport Dlx which lost a propellor en route from! Manila to San Francisco, has been taken In tow by the submarine tender Beaver, a wireless message today stated The Dix lost a propellor 250 miles from Honolulu. |