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Show H BBR!NGSNSpS IH Czecho-SIovak Soldiers and H Enemy War Captives to H Be Returned Home. H SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 The army H transport Mount Vernon arrived hero H today from Vladivostok with -1,852 pns- H sengcrs, including 3,163 Czecho-SIovak HI solidiers and C69 German, Austrian and H Hungarian Tvnr prisoners, who are be- ing returned to their homes in Eur- As the former German liner warped into her berth, the prisoners who had been captured by the soldiers of the I czar in the fighting in Poland early in the war and sent to work in the Siberian Siber-ian mines, lined up along the rail and joined in a song. Neither the prisoners nor ihc soldiers sol-diers were permitted to land but fellow fel-low countrymen here of the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks have arranged for a reception . aboard the Mount Vernon tomorrow. The passenger list was the largest of any ship ever docking at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, harbor officials said. In addition to the prisoners and soldiers, sol-diers, there were 200 cabin passengers, a detail of American soldiers who acted act-ed as guards for the prisoners, a number num-ber of Czecho-SIovak civilians and several sev-eral groups of Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus relief workers work-ers who had been on duly in Siberia. |