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Show P- . Soldiers and Sailors Who Gave Up Lives in Russia Rus-sia Eulogized, SERVICE AT HOBOKEN Senator Voices Official Welcome Home to First Company of Dead, j NEW YORK, Nov 13. In the I chill of a November rain, the nation J accorded honors today to ihe first of its her.-ie dead brought back from world war battlcf lejds. On a flag bedecked be-decked crepe draped army pier In Ho boken the bodies of 103 American sol-i dlers who gave up their lives in. northern Russia and of 10 sailors who died with th navy s forces In 'farthest north" wain received their benediction. Their coffins had been swung ashore In rope nets, one bv one from the little transport, Lake Daragg. i lnst midnight when the funeral ship! arrived from Brest. Eighteen long rows of cnskeis, each draped w ith an Amerkan flag and i decked with autumn flowers, gave sll- pnt tafiHmfnu i ,-, ihr. miiMMifl ,..-! f . . . . u. . ... vu,. .- hit. auyi nuc aaiiiiu.' of the country's lighting men beyond the seas. The congress of the United States, the army, navy, American Legion, the state ot Michigan where most of the heroes lived, and the city of Detroit, all joined In honoring them With the official representatives stood a little group of relatives of the dead Floral tributes and a representation from the Russian embassy acknow 1 edced gratitude to the American sol diers who fell In Russia in the caus of humanity Band Playc Hymns. W hile rain pattered on the pier shed.i the services began with Lead Kindly Light," played by the 13th infanti band and the reading of the 23rd psalm, 'The Lord Is My Shepherd." United States Senaior Wadswonh of New York voiced the official "wel-oiced "wel-oiced the official "welcome home to the first company of our dead, no less triumphant In (heir home-coming than those regiments, battalions and companies com-panies of the living we have ser-n marching through our streets." Governor Slever of Michigan, in an address, rr-ad by Major Rolph Duff, paid his tribute to the fallen, These all died in the faith," he said "They died m the faith that government govern-ment of the people, by the people, for the people is best; that the flag is worth fighting for; that our country, dedicated to righteousness and conse (rated in freedom is worth living for, worth dj ing for. "It is for us, the liung so lo live, so to play our parts as rltiens of our' several states and as cltizena of this great republic, that we may be ar counted worth ol the great sacrinccs: these dead have made for us." |