Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-24 | Page 1 | Last of American Expeditionary Force Welcomed at Harbor

LAST OF SiEII : EMIlira&CE WELCOMED AT HUBORi Transport Also Brings Passengers Pas-sengers Rescued from Disabled Disabl-ed Steamer Powhatan i NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The army : transport Northern Pacific, carrying! the last contingent of the American; expeditionary force In France, and tho; 271 passengers of the disabled irans-j port Powhatan, reached port early to-j day and expected to dock at Hoooken during the forenoon. Two hundred members of the Rocky Mountain club, with many notables as guests, went down the bay in a stvam-j er to greet the transport at quaran-: tine. The doughboys will be guestu of the club at a dinner and series of entertainments. The Powhatan's passengers were rc i moved from the helpless transport! about 200 miles off Halifax after she! had wallowed in high seas for sixj days and nights. The Powhatan, which sailed from scw York for Antwerp Ant-werp on January 16 and was disabled last Sunday, was being slowly towed to Halifax today by the Canadian steamship Lady Laurler. . oo