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Show 26th Artillery Brigade on Way To United States WASHINGTON'. April 2. .Sailing from France of the complete artillery brigade of the twenty-sixth (New England Eng-land national guard) division and the 102nd infantry, two companies of the 103rd Infantry and the 101st machine gun battalion, all of the same division, was announced today by the war de-partment. de-partment. The troops arc on board the transports Mongolia and Agamemnon, Agamem-non, both t.f v.hich left Brest March. 23. The latter is due at Boston on April 6 The war department also announced that the remainder of the 332nd infantry, infan-try, composed of Ohio and western Pennsylvania troops, which has been stationed on the Italian front, had sailed from Genoa on tho transport Duca D'Aosta, which is due at New York April 10. The Duca D'Aosta has on board a de-tachment de-tachment of the field and staff, a de-lachmein de-lachmein of the headquarters' company, com-pany, the supply and machine gun companies, companies A, B, c, D and I, and veterinary and medical detachments detach-ments of tho 332nd infantry; detach- ment of base hospital No. 102, and field hospital No. 331 complete The transport I'annonia also is due ,hw irk April 10 with th bead-quarters bead-quarters of the second battalion and batteries D and E of the 328th field artillery; companies A and '' of the 310th ammunition train; 330Hi field artillery complete; a casual company of Illinois troops and thirteen casual officer? The transport Mongol ia, due at Boston, Bos-ton, at an unannounced date, has aboard the 5 1st field artillery brigade headquarters; 101st field artillery imd battalion headquarters, supply and detachment of headquarters corn-pan) corn-pan) medical detachment and batter tea C to F inclusive; 102nd and 103rd field artillery complete. Brigadier General John H. Shurburn command ing 51st field artillery brigade, Is aboard th Mongolia. The transport A,gamemnon is bnns-ing bnns-ing the 102nd Infantrj complete; companies com-panies L and M of the 103rd infantry; 101st machine gun battalion cem plete; field and staff, detachmeu' headquarters company and batteries A and B of the 101 st field artillery; casual cas-ual companies from New York and Ohio, and 213 casual officers. On board also is Major Ocueral Clement A F. Flagler, commander of the 42nd division. The transport K. I. l,uckenbach sailed from Brest for New York. March 31 with the 52nd pioneer infantry, less eompanles L and S en route for Camp Dix The transports West Grove, West Ualoc and Elinor have also sailed with casual detachments |