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| put. to block onr employment of ft. ! Nof 191 1 H £ e a5 v ] waterdan . perilous voyage ¢ NAVY TRANSPORTS SET RECORDS | TO CARRY OUT GIGANTIC TASK| 2079880 Crossed to France—America's Great Part—The Impossible Accom- plished in Converting Ships. BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Former Secretary of the Navx ARTICLE 29. When the Vatertand. pride of the Werman merchant marine, reached | New York on its first voyage it at- tracted intense interest in shipping circles. Tt was the latest. finest, most mag- nificently appointed creation of ma- rine architecture. Conscious of the fevement of their country, and n _the attention it had the Vaterland's officers gave evoked a dinner, and invited to {t prominent nd engi- leading citi- ipbuilders, constructor s well as other ble floating palace for Surope.” said one of its but that is not the best or t important thing about the the mo Vateriand.” “Well, what is?* asked the curious visitors. ~Come below,” said he. “and I will show you." Welow went the whole party, and there he showed them how every de-: tail of its plan had been devised sv as to facilitate its quick conversion into @ troop-carry hip, with ecapaeity for 10,000 soldiers Carried 96,504 Soldfers. *That is the best and most mpor- tant thing about the Vaterland” he said. “In a remarkably short time, if the need arises, we can make It a troop transport.” He was right We proved he w RBetween the da the war and t} Jand, its r d to the L than, carried 96.804 soldiers to Eu- rope. German foresight and ski designing this monster liner con- tributed materially to the success of the bigzest transportation fob in his- tory—the greatest movement of arm- ed men over such a distance that the world has even geen the Vater- safled for Earope, as he was leaving my office. T said to him: “Admiral, you are going on the st important. the most difficult and the most hazardous duty assigned to the Nav. od-bye.” That was not overstating it, in any particular. No nation in history had ever attempted to_transport so huge an army overseas. It would have been difficult enough under the most ideal conditions, with nothing to hinder or molest. The German navy could have no Rreater object than te prevent our troops from getting to France. There could have been no greater vietory for them than to have sunk a trans- port loaded with American sold Allted troopships had been sunk, f time to time, in spite of e guard. We were taking e eaution that could be devised was a new and untried k for S and one on which our whole par- ticipation in the war depended. Were Anxious Day Words ean hardly express the strain of those anxious days when ships of the first convo 12,000 troops were running the 16t to Fr: received e news tha had all ; arrived safely at St. Nazair Sailing in & dense fog June 14, 1917, the first group arrived June 26, the last, the cargo ship: The' first group. Admiral Gle ted. was attacked by submarines the night of | June at the second | group encountered two, and a torpedo was fired at the fourth group June 29, That they had escaped ihe subma- rines was an added cause for rejoic- ing. Not a ship was damaged or a man injure and an officer reported to Admiral Gleaves: We didn't lose but one horse, and that a mule.” “The German admiralty had boasted that not one A rican soldfer should get feot in Franes Admiral Gleaves says in his book. 'The bluff had been called, and it could not have been called at a more psychological mo- ment.” pre- 1 t the Had to Work Fast. Tt s true the Germ did thefr best, when they realized the use to! which their mighty vessel might be | The plans for conversion, which had{ been all worked out most carefully. | Getting that first group of trans- ports together was a job. The Army had only a few troop ships them fit for transatlantic The Navy had only three derson, just complet the Hancock and the ofrmer German commerve raider, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, which we converted fnto an auxiliary cruis- er and renamed the De Kalb. The Army secured fourteen mail and car- serv the and which were among the ship's papers when she fi York. were spirited awa make our own plans, but that was| done without great delay. | They took the greatest pain to prevent our us any of the German | vesse Refarc we got possession of | them. their engines ard machinery | were so badly damaged by the! erews that the Germans thought they could never be repaired in time tol get into the war. American experts esti a rs would require from one to two years. But the Navy, | by using clectr welding and other | new methods. repaired them in a few | months nd all were carrving Amer- | fean troops or supplies before the end | r mph of Amer- ean i ¥ incering skill. German Ships Carried 557.48S Men. The internad Ger ships, which approvriated rechristene with rican names. carried to Eu repq S8 men. The st of thes ships, with their original and their new ames and the number of men each is worth preserving as a Tecord of one of the most extraor- instances in history of how great nation may be hastened to *s downfall through instrumentali- ties which it had constructed for its own aggrandizement. Here it is: nary German Name and Amerivan Name. Taviathan m 1 FHamburz Friederich der Gr Prinzess Irena—Pocahontas eorze Washington 4 eorge Washington. Martha WashinetonMartha Washington Prinz 1 Friederich —DeRalb. Amerika—A Neckar—A: Cincinnati Kronprin: Prinzess Al The Leviathan carried from 10.000 11.000 men on each trip eastward, and in 1918, when we were rushing troops to France, she often made the go steamships, and tily converted them. It had to be quick work. We had not contemplated sending troops so soon. From a_ military standpoint it would have been be ter, so some experts declared, to have retained the regulars for a while to aid in training the new officers and raw recruits, and not to have begun transportation until we had a larger Army But war-weary France, grimly hold- ng b the Germans, and England, beset by submarines, needed cheering | up: needed visible evidence that re- those |y jmost {mportant thing to all the v ve | Americans ice, or our relief when we | Wa SOUUDE ACHlC S talian #hips THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921 i B 903 under British esc ort and 1,720,360 sent over nearly . it we had h, French s no gift United States govern- for every tion and on completion duty re- ' . 3 2 i o e atation. Trava | Abe Martin Says: Sailed under the escort of the United directed necessary in military | ates Navy. service. By order \'F‘rh!a‘ry War. | We cn‘;‘l]‘ll 'l:‘f;]t§|‘.:lvo ] Mo 912 am. | {50 many troops as we di T devoted considerable thought to | not heen aided by the Brit Selecting the officer to comm: < o~ ind Talian v his w expedition, for he was also, he it of course. The Tinited Sta made good. to tlon ment paid, and paid well, ave general dire soldier transported o of the vast task of troop t tation. 1 selected Rear Admiral Al- lsel. The aid of t bert G then in ecomm of French was inv our destroyer force, and 1 never had | prectated. They sho reason to regret this tholee. No credit for all they di man could have ter; no job was ever better dones Fleet Totaled 149 Vessels. American 911,047 up the great force which American sold 1,700,000—a tot across the four crufsers ships, and after 349,770 men. Transporting 2. troops to Franc led to no little Of thé 194,985 in but | 75,480 were taken in British ships March, in 1918, January, British v ¥ odid fer the famou the Germans vas wotting fn numbers were Tn April, 19 ships. In M: more than we 561, besidea 1 vessels leased b stice, though Amerfcan ships, ried 69; ships, 53488, and records forc The transport ported ta France —952,681 in Ame 047 68.246 sels and 52.066 in other forcign ship carried 46.25 per inforcement was certain, that the Americans were coming. Marshal| Joffre asked that some troops be sent | at the earliest possible moment—"a regiment or two: if possible a divi ion. He told Secretary Baker that ! he looked forward to the day when the United States should build up its plendid Army of 400,000 or 500,000.” | Pershing Called From Borde i Secretary Baker immediately began | his preparations to send troops. Gen. | Pershing was chosen to command the forces to be sent to Europe, and was summoned from_ the Mexican border v 7. The brief telegram sent him is of such historic interest that I think you would like to see how it read: No. 1 DIOD_45 GOVT. DI Washington, D. C. May 7, 1917. Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Rumber §719. Repair to this eity at once and report to chief staff for consulta- (GRANULES) Eor INDIGESTION frag Wl Atchve g vichy. Try at soda fountain. QUICK RELIEF! ALSO IN TABLET FORM across the Atlantic without cruiser escort, relying on her speed and guns to pe the U-boats When Admiral Gieaves came to Washington for his final instruotions, fust before the first troop convoys Just Deore v ——— SPECIAL NOTICES. A 10 MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION SPECIAL NOTICES. DR. T B WOOD, DENTIST, is now located at 1419 G st. n.w. Phone M. 5796, A RETTREN MOVING ity or intermediate point on May SANTINI, 1250 Southern boulevard, 19, New York city i TO WHOM IT MAY OON A RN—1 WILL N be responsible for any debts contracted by any one other than myseif ROBERT E. 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American as well as_ foreign, was empl how they were carried o before the ead of 19 carrfed in American 18,535 of these February United States naval trar Foreign shipping in not become British Beat U. 8. {n May. 8, 67, ed States transports, 47,582 fn British the next five monthe up to the we {naval transports and 8873 in other British other foreign ships, of 2,079,580 American troops were trans. of these in United transports; 1,008,987 1 in_British- 85¢ 30122 14160 14153 ™= 14154 14155 14156 35000 35001 done a big job bet- not detract one fota ting through “the b tation job in history and of 2,600,000 carried in jess than a troop (Another artlcle by the armistice com- carrying troops. tomorrow.) 000,000 Tnited States e was such an {m- R station iwin A1 foned 4 at This has as to -d. controver: in Ds the Ame troops which sailed 1 | duty with 1420 wore i scis, all but | | ansports: and v our t g carried port Why don’t soine one design some kind of a new kind of af large quan. | loving r:u])? 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