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First of 77th
Said to Sail
On Thursday
Official Confirmation of
Date Expected Within
a Few Days; Welcome
Committee Kays Plans
Only Await Definite Word
Expecl Entire Division May
Be Reoiitfitted Before
Review in Fifth Avenue
Unoffic al reports received in New
York yesterday set April 17 as the
sailing date from Brest of the first
. enf of the 77th Division. Con
-,, ,> . is i'-'iormafcicn is ex
pected within a few days.
The special committee of the Selec?
tive Service, of which Charles E.
Hughe.- ia chairman ex-officio, which
ivas nanu d some time ago to cooperate
with the Mayor's Committee of Wel?
come and the various auxiliaries of
the 77th Division, met last night ai
the Bar association, -?? West Forty
fourth St net. to formulate plans of
me. The meeting, which was at
tended by Mr. tlughes, Martin Conboy,
.lohn H. Hallock, Henry \V. Taft, H.
Snowden Marshall, George Gordon
Battle and se\'( ral others, was secret.
Definite Arrival Date Awaited
It was announced later in the even?
ing that until a definite date of ar?
rival for the division was received
? rom tin War Department, no perma?
nent plan- would be made. Tentative
arrangements, however, have been con?
cluded v?'?????'"? will insure making the
welcome t ., N.'w York's own lighting
men om of the most noteworthy events
?n the history of the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, com?
manding the advance party of the 77th,
went to Camp Mills yesterday to in?
spect quart i i for the division upon its
arrival. II is understood that most, if
not all, the men will be stationed at.
? | al camp until the parade.
Major Allen Lindley conferred with
[Uartermaster officials with ref
to the reoutfitt ing of tho di
lion prior to the divisional review.
..-and new uniforms will be
. red, with the same number of
i airs of s hoe : and other art icles of
? ng. N'"ti ing official has been
ch s to whether a complete
reouttitting i ' the division will bo car?
ried out, !> .' - ' s pe'ted t hat the
? charged from service
?.' ? clothing.
Nr? 11u( fil s for Darade
also i- hoped that the new issue
will b mipt ly- upon the arrival
ui ts at Camp Mills. Dis
cardii g old uniforms, worn
houl the long, hard campaign in
the Argonne region, would permit th'1
? ' hi Id without the delay
to the cleansing processes which
} omecoming troops usually have to
undergo.
Officials of the 77th Division Asso?
ciation announced yesterday that jobs
.'-? beei ired to all but 2.100 of
.en comprising the division.
Most of those for whom no employ
. been found are from the East
Side, it wa tated.
Ai extra force lias been ?mploycd to
canvass the employment situation pend?
ing the arrival of the division. When
vision reaches home a second em
mt office, supplement'.r.ir that at
280 Madison Av. nue, will be estab?
lished at Camp Upton, where ttie di?
vision will be lie-mobilized.
Allies to Permit
Germany to Use
Ylail and Cables
Will Remove Bun to Limited
Extent Aiding Food Traffic;
B r i t i > h Censorship Upon
U. S. Messages Is Lifted
PARIS, April 14 fRy The Associated
Pre 5), The associated povernmc-nts
have authorized the resumption of pos?
tal, cable and wireless communication
between Germany and neutral coun
tries to a limited extent, in order V
operation of the food
agreement ."-ached at Brussels on
Marci ! i. The decision is based on
? fact that the expor
nmodities with which
Gern ai . to pay for food imports
_ irated unless the Ger?
mai to make arrangements
ids by letters and tele
regarding imports
'(d foi the present to
foodsi ?' . those regarding ex
?" .?: no reference to se
ei than negotiable instru?
ment-, or to Commodities whose export
c agreement, such
t ? rware and materials.
-?
Allenby Arrests 400
Rioters as Cairo Calms
General Reports 22 Killed in
Individual Attacks; Village
Is Surrounded
'? AIRO, April 12. An official state
d at the headquarters of
\ lenby, Sp?cial High Com
??? Egypt and the Sudan, to
terday quiet has pre
? Egypt. An attempt
? lay to ta m pi r ??? Ith a railway re
? arrl ? ?le attempts to
nt*rftri I telegraphic communica
" " village of Bcni
irro indi d and given
' to produci ( i ??
on . Friday two rioters
: and one wounded .?., , n
? -?'? '. cuttiag telephone
*??TtS near Que-,,?-,.
' i of prominent Alexan
? has cabled tho command?
ai officer deploring disorders on
?' ? ?pressing appreciation
'?' forbearance of the troop?. Four
red persons have been arrested in
"'?'''" " " nt rioting."
Apart tr(,n, collisions with mobs on
AftrtI 8, :,. 10 and 11, four officers and
?t??n men have been killed throngh
? dual?. The police / ('?
f*rt ''?" civilian casualties for the
j4""" ri <-nding at noon i-'n
????s 'hier- killed and fifteen wounded
?>n: deputation of Egyptian Nation
been given p'-rmis
?? ko to Kvigiand waa given an en
?*wl**t?e fari-w.-ij yesterday. At Malta
.!'' . dyptitatldH ?rill pick up Said
5**Jp?l J'a.-ha, \.h>- former Ministet of
***W and leader >,l the campaign for
???plat? auto????.
Marines, Army and
Navy Seeking Recruits
ARMY
npilK United States army recruit
ing office, at 38 Kast Twenty
third Street, is open for business
and running full blast, with Ser?
geant Henry Sonnenberg in charge.
Enlistments are being made for
overseas service in the infantry,
cavalry, field artillery, engineer
corps and medical department. For
the Philippine department enlist?
ments are open for infantry, coast
artillery, engineers, signal corps and
medical department; also negro cav?
alry for Philippine service.
NAVY
DECRUITS continue to pour into
the navy recruiting station at
34 Kast Twenty-third Street, accord?
ing to Lieutenant Commander P. D.
Wickersham, the officer in charge.
A concerted drive is to be made when
the battleships are lying in the har?
bor, to induce men who have served
n the navy and whose time will
shortly expire, to reenlist. The ad?
vantages of life in the navy over the
uncertain conditions prevailing in
civil life will be put ?before the men,
and it is expected that a large per?
centage will re?nlist. At present
mechanics of all kinds are wanted
and will find good pay and promo?
tion awaiting them.
MARINES
r|,|HK Marine Corps recruiting of?
fice at 24 East Twenty-third
Street is still keeping up the drive
for bandsmen, and Lieutenant Harry
W, Miller, the officer in charge, is
hopeful of being able to secure
enough men to till out the various
regimental bands in the corps. Re?
sides bandsmen the marines want
men for general service in all parts
of the world.
40 Landlords or Agents
Hale Tenants to Court
Justice Itobitck Succeeds in
Effecting Compromise in
Many Dispossess Cases
The conflict between sixty-eight
Bronx tenants and their landlords took
a turn in favor of the tenants yester?
day. Forty landlords or their agents
appeared before Justice Harry Robit
zek, in the Municipal Court, determined
to prosecute the tenants for failure or
refusal to pay rents. In most cases
Justice Robit/.ek succeeded in effecting
a compromise. In some instances the
landlords promised to wait "a little
longer.''
In ten cases the court was obliged to
issue dispossess notices. The tenants
frankly admitted they had no money
for their rent. Reasons given were
chiefly sickness and lack of employ?
ment.
Mrs. Mary Messer, of 350 East 16Gth
Street, wife of a soldier now in France
and mother of three children, appeared
before Justice Robitzek on complaint
of Robert Bergman, an agent, who
charged that Mrs. Messer was behind
three months in her rent. Mrs. Messer
said she had not received her husband's
allotment from the government for sev?
eral months, and that all she could do
was to earn enough money for food for
herself and children.
Hannn Adler, of 40G4 Third Avenue,
mother of four children, told the court
, her earnings, with those of her sixteen
1 year-old son, were not sufficient, to
cover the family's living expenses, and
: that the United Hebrew Charities had
been paying the rent. The court sus?
pended decision pending an investiga
? tion.
Victory Fleet
Arrives Here
Ahead of Time
Continued from pam- 1
j gray fighters stretched in an almost
; unbroken line from Forty-second
Street to 205th Street.
Another evidence that this was a
| sailor's holiday and not one the gob
; was providing for the city was found
> in the appearance of the fleet at night.
Instead of a highly illuminated group
; of ships, such as was seen in the river
> when the fleet returned for its liome
! coming pageant of victory on Decem
!ber 26, there were seen only the dark
! sides of the big drcadnaughts, with
the white beam of n searchlight or
the blue sidelights and flashes of an
! occasional wireless to mark their lo?
cation.
Admiral Mayo explained that the
j strands of incandescents that had at?
tracted so much attention at the win
| ter pageant Had been sent ashore when
j the ships sailed away for their ma
! noeuvres. This is the play day of the
' sailor, and he cares nothing for the
: appearance of the fleet after the first
j rules of cleanliness have been ob
! served.
Thousands 'Phone Arrival
Within a few hours after the fleet
' had anchored in the river at least one
fourth of its fighting strength was
ashore making vigorous use of the tel?
ephone to announce to surprised rela?
tives and sweethearts that the war was
over for them. By to-night practically
every man of the 30,000 sailors, from
i Admiral Mayo down, will have been
ashore for at least a few hours.
I The commander of the fleet smiled
broadly during tho afternoon when,
; sitting in the bright sunshine on the
? quarter deck of the Pennsylvania, he
? told how he had gained a day on
! schedule of arrival and an additional
twenty-four hours for his men.
"In the first place the chaplain hcr^
provided just the weather that we
ordered from him," said Admiral Ma\o
of Father M. C. Gleeson, fleet chaplain.
"We told him several days ago that
nothing less than perfect weather
! would be satisfactory and 1 see he
produced it.
Ships Go to Full Speed
"We were moving in from the Gulf
stream when, about, noon yesterday, we
I cleared the stream and passed Hat
; teras. Then we began to put on steam.
; We moved up to seventeen knots, then
nineteen, twenty-one and a half and
? finally the order of full speed ahead
; was given. For four hours we con?
tinued at full speed ahead. Of course,
the speed we made varied with the
capabilities of the various ships, but
; some of the boats were moving along
at more than twenty-two knots, while
many of them were making consider?
ably more than they made on their
I trial trips.
The fleet is returning for its annual
holiday in New York after two months
of practice and hard work at Guanta
I namo Bay, Cuba. Reports of the com
| manding officers show that the morale
! of the navy and the skill of the gun
? ners, even with the addition of the ro
j cruits added for the period of the war
only, has improved rather than dete
j riorated since the actual lighting lias
ended.
One of the boasts of the gunners is
that they successfully "straddled" a
! target, with the first salvo of guns fired
! at target practice at a distance of 21,
fiOO yards- a greater distance than is
. attempted at target practice except on
I rare occasions. A "straddle" is the best
I possible spread of hits across the face
; of a target and if applied to the side
1 of an enemy ship as successfully would
j effectively cut down the enemy forces
j by just that ship, since nothing would
< remain afloat to show where it had
' stood.
But all the time of the navy was not
' consumed in hard work while in Cuban
I waters. There were athletic events
? that aroused all the latent sporting
blood of the sailors. The Pennsyl?
vania, which was fortunate enough to
number "Rabbit." Maranville, once
I shortstop for the Boston Braves,
among its crew, won every ball game in
whicih its team played.
"Rabbit" was captain and shortstop i
of the Pennsylvania team. He also
proved so good a coach that he de
i clares he will take several sailors away
from Uncle Sam and lead them into
professional baseball.
One of the first men to clamber
down the sides of the Pennsylvania
yesterday afternoon was Maranville,
with a parrot on his shoulder and a
monkey chattering on his arm.
"Be still, Caruso," said "Rabbit" to
' the protesting monkey. "Don't you
'know when you're lucky? We are now
out of the service and we're going to
.see Boston. What more could anybody
ask ?"
_ For "Rabbit" had been given his dis?
charge and was makinp his way to the
Boston train as rapi*jj as the ship's
i barge could carry him :o shore.
Protest Against Comforts
With the fleet came the usual num
j ber of sailor protests against the in
| dignities in the way of comforts and
frills that are heaped upon them by.
i would-be friends. One of the un
! voiced protests is being nursed by
| Admiral Mayo himself, who will be
compelled to wear one of the new
regulation "open front" uniforms.
j copied from the British navy by some
i unnamed costumers of American
| heroes at Washington, if he buys a
; new uniform before leaving the ser
j vice. But Admiral Mayo, who will be
retired in December of next year, will
: beat the new regulation by three
j weeks. The wearing of the uniform
: will not become compulsory until Jan
. uary 1, 1021.
And some of the gobs have been
, moaning their protests because a big
consignment of pillows?regular pil
j lows of the sort that are to be had on
?the feather beds back home-reached
them.
"What do they think we do on
! board? Pound the hay about twenty
four hours a day?" demanded one of
the men who had tossed his pillow
? overboard.
No Dull Hour for Gobs
During the two weeks' stay of the
I fleet in New York there will not be
r. dull hour for a single gob who de?
sires amusement. Eight corporate
friends of the fighting arms of uncle
Sam have joined hands to mak:? the
, sailors' stay in New York one long t(
be remembered.
The organizations that have plannet
the next two weeks' of entertainmenl
I are:
The New- York War Camp Community
Service.
Jewish Welfare Board.
Young Men's Christian Association.
Young Women's Christian Assocu.
.1011.
Knights of Columbus.
Salvation Army.
American Library Association.
American Red Cross.
There will be sightseeing trip;
: dances, dinners, matinees and evenin
performances of practically all of th
: shows, in addition lo half a cloze
morning performances of the circus a
; .Madison Square Garden. The circu
performances will be exclusively fo
?he sailors, at which special number
! will be put on for their cnterta-inmeii
! only.
-*_-?
L. S. to Get Imperator,
German Liner, by May
Captain Robison Will Be i
' Charge of Gian! Transport lo
Bring Doughboys Home
WASHINGTON, April 14. -The gia;
I liner Imperator, one of the twelve Ge
man ships allocated to the Unit*
States for the return of Americi
troops, is expected to be delivered
England about. May 1. Captain Jol
K. Robison, now at London, has bei
assigned to command the ship. Tl
Imperator is in Hamburg, and it h
been necessary to dredge the Ell
River channel in order to permit i
passage to sea.
The Imperator is of about the san
size as the Leviathan and after beii
i refitted in this country will be able
! carry about 12,000 soldiers. The tot
I troop capacity of the twelve Germi
ships will exceed 60.000 men and t!
vessels should be able to make a roui
trip between France and Ameri
I every month. Eight of the liners ne
have been delivered and several a
i en route to the United States,
Easter Gifts
and gifts
for Easter Brides
TT 7 E have tried to put ourselves in the places
? ? of both giver and recipient in choosing the
things meant to be gifts. Th/;y are such that the
one will be proud to give, the other delighted to
receive.
Whether you are choosing a soft, woolly bunny
for a baby or a chest of silverware for a bride,
you will find it among the abundant stocks of
this gift-filled store. Whatever it may be, it will
have the charm that adds the magic touch of
personality to your Easter greeting.
Jewelry Confections Stationery
Silverware Books Handbags
Pictures Linens Toys
Herald Square New York
__________,_i
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Petain Will Visit America
After Peace Is Proclaimed
Marshal Gives High Praise to Our Army for Or?
ganization Behind the Lines ; Makes a Four
Day Trip to Inspeet United States Gimps
CHANTILLY. France, April 14 (By
The Associated Press)..Marshal Pe
tain, commander in chief of the French
armies in France, announced his in?
tention to-day of visiting the United
States.
"I have not been invited to America
as yet," said the Marchai to the
correspondent, "but I am going because
I consider it my duty to thank the
Americans for everything they have
done through their Red Cross for the
civilians and soldiers of France. After
wards I purpose to see the chiefs ol
the American army who have co
operated in winning the war. Thes(
visits concluded, I hope to go then
once more as a civilian, so that nobod;
shall recognize me, and make a trij
through the United States with a fev
friends."
These projects of the Marshal wen
disclosed in the course of an inter
view in which the French commande
expressed his amazement at the won
derful organization established by tin
Americans behind the lines, which h'
recently visited in company witl
several other French generals. He
declared that during the hostilities h
had had no time to examine what h
now termed the "marvellous arrange
ments" for the supply, subsistence am
transport of the American troops.
The Marshal, with his travellin;
Old 69th En Route
On the Harrisburg,
Due Here Suiuhn
Army Offieials Plan Speed
Handling of Troops; Nei
York Men Also on (?rea
-Northern and Von Stenbei
. WASHINGTON, April 14. In o
ficially announcing the sailing of tl
165th Infantry Regiment, New York
old lighting 69th National Guard o
ganization, on the Harrisburg, whit
will dock at New York April 2<\ o
licials of the operation division of tl
general staff to-day began plans for tl
speedy handling of the troops at II
boken in order that the parade pin;
will not. miscarry.
The entire regiment, will be sent
Camps Upton and Dix for a brief re
period, and arrangements will be ma?
to move the organization into Ne
York City for the review down Fit"
Avenue before any of the troops de
tined for demobilization at camps di
tant from New York are detached fro
the regiment.
The complement on the Harrisbu
includes the 165th Infantry, field ai
staff, headquarters company, supp
and machine gun companies, medic
detachment, Companies A to F, i
elusive, 82 officers, 1,680 men, divid
as follows; Camp Upton, 52 officers, 9
men; Camp Dix, 5 officers, OS me:
Camp Devons, 5 officers, 7-1 men; Can
Mead, .'18 men; Camp Lee, 4 officers, 1
men; Camp Gordon, 3 officers, 42 me;
' companions, made a four-day trip, tak?
ing in Bordeaux, St. Nazaire, Gievre,
St." Pierre des Corps and Corbeil. and,
as the Marshal declared, they brought
back with them the impression that
the American! had understood perfect?
ly how to conduct a modern war.
"Their procedure was not unknown
to us," continued the Marsha!, "but
the extent and magnitude of their
work was a surprise to us. and we
must profit from what we have seen.
Everywhere we went we found the per?
sonnel always busy. I never saw a
man who was not working. 1 saw
, that the generals who were with me
were profoundly impressed with the
great size of the force, its methods and
its discipline. Everything that was
done by the United States was worthy
of what we had expected from it."
Marshal Petain was full of admira
; tion for everything he saw in the
' camps, at the docks and depots, on the
railroads, in the recuperation work
| shops and in the recreation centres.
j He spoke particularly of the manner
in which labor was economized by *.he
use of mechanical appliances. He had
evidently studied closely the American
effort since the entry of the United
States into the war, for he had at his
fingers' ends the details of the arrival
of the troops, first gradually and then
in everincreasing masses, with the con?
sequent necessity for more ample
means of supplying them. As to this,
he said the Americans had lived up
their task in every sense of the word.
Camp Sheridan, 1 officer, 42 men; ("amp
Sherman, .'! officers, -r>i men; ('amp
Taylor, 2 officers, 52 men; Camp Grant,
:; officers, 42 men; Camp Dodge, o of?
ficers, 102 men; Camp Bowie, 1 officei",
i 88 men.
New York soldiers also are aboard
: two other transports hound for New
York and a third routed to Boston
'fhe Great Northern, which left Brest
! April 12, will arrive at. New York April
20 with a number of army ambulance
service sections, totalling 16 officers
1 and 674 men, who will go to Camp Up?
ton for discharge. A New York casual
? company of 1 officer, 46 men. and 1L
officers and 271 men of the 110th Kn
; gineers. who will go to Camps Dix am
; Upton for demobilization, are includec
; in the passenger list of the transport
1 Von SU-uben, which is due in New Yorl
i April 19, The Vedic, routed for Boston
carries I! officers and 28 men of tin
128th Field Artillery Regiment, \vh<
! will go to Camp Dix for discharge.
Two Ships Bring
3,908 Troops and
47 Service Brides
The transport Plattsburg got in yes
| terday with 2,266 soldiers on board an<
the Duca D'Aosta with 1,642 men o
the 332(1 Infantry, which fought ii
Italy. The Plattsburg also brouglr
forty-seven service brides, thirty-sever
the wives of soldiers and ten the wive:
of sailors.
One of them was Mrs. Ellena V. Me
Cormick, whose husband, Frank G. Mc
Cormick, is . sergeant major and still
in France. Before -lie mo; him she
had been three years in France as :i
stenographer with the Canadian forces
| On March 4, 1917, she said, she and
I one hundred other young women were
i captured by the Germans in an assault
j on a base hospital at Rouen. She was
j wounded by machine gun fire and was
i taken to Berlin, where she suffered
' from the brutality of her captors dc
spite her wounds. The other young
women also were cruelly treated, she
said. They were released after four
months.
The men of the 332d Infantry are the
? first to reach home from the Italian
| front. In the rout of the Austrians
?the 332d made 11.000 prisoners. It is
\ commanded by Colonel William Wal?
lace, grandson of General Lew Wallace.
Colonel Wallace will receive from the
i Italians of New York a gold medal
i commemorative of his services. He
, wears already the decorations of the
Order of Sts. Maurice and Philip and
! the Distinguished Service Order.
Count Dentice di Frasso, a member
; of the Italian Parliament, accompanied
the troops. He was Italian military
attach? in Petrograd when the Bolshe
viki overwhelmed the Kerensky gov?
ernment and was put in jail. Ke heard
?'sixteen of his neighbors led out to
\ death in the twenty-two days he passed
' in the prison.
Spanish Cabinet Resigns
MADRID, April 14 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?The Spanish Cabinet has
resigned.
WASHINGTON. April 14.?Communi?
cation facilities throughout Spain were
' reported restored to normal in a Ma?
drid dispatch to-day to the State De?
partment. Martial law has been sus?
pended at Valencia and Alicante, and
conditions at Barcelona and elsewhere
i where strikes had taken place were
' reported improved.
Pershing at Brest to
Meet Son and Baker
'Ambassador Sharp to Arrive at
Port To-day to Confer
With His Successor
I BREST, April 14.?General Pershing
jarrived here to-day to meet Secretary
I Baker, who is due here on the Ameri
! can transport Leviathan.
William G. Sharp, the retiring Amer
j ican Ambassador to France, and Mrs.
? Sharp are expected here to-morrow,
i Mr. Sharp and Hugh Wallace, the new
: American Ambassador, who is alsocom
i ing on the Leviathan, will confer Tues?
day on business of the Paris Embassy.
Mr. Wallace will go to Paris Wednes
! day.
I Officials of the French government
! have arrived here to receive Secretary
i Baker and Ambassador Wallace and to
; say farewell to Mr. Sharp.
When Secretary Baker sailed on the
| Leviathan from Now York he took with
I him Warren Pershing, the nine-year
old son of the American commander.
The Secretary said he intended to sur
i prise General Pershing with his son,
| whom the general has not. seen r.ince
1 early in 1917.
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