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Company MHas Reached Its DestinationSomewhere In Europe Safely Is ReportedBy The War Department This Morning^a:;'fv -r -•y- 7 y*r*:lt;vEAST VDBW OF COMPANY M BEFORE LEAVING FOR CAMP DOUGLAS TO ENTER FEDERAL SERVICE... ., 1______i ^ j ~ rnUr.fr /'At’dn Tv'nHnnHl fimni hftVA fi I rp.ACompany M of the 123 infantry, sixty-fourth brigade and Thirty-second division of : the United States National Guard army are now somewhere on foreign soil/’ Just -where, the public is not permitted to Know.but it is now officially announced they landed safely.The two big regiments, the 12 7th find the l2Sth Infantry, were on one boat. It is poetic justice that they sailed to thoir destination safely on the old Vaterland/’ former premiervessel of the Hum tours-American line, which was t a Seen over on the declaration of war b'y the United States government and used as a transport to convey troops to Europe to fight the Germans. It was renamed the leviathan.” .The fact that seven thousand Wisconsin soldiers were on the one vessel somewhere in the danger ssone has caused many sleepless nights for thosehaving the Knowledge. That they have arrived safely brings a sigh ot relief.Company M, composed entirely of Rock county boys, the majority from Janesville, Edge non and Evansville, landed on Monday, March 4th_ The Gazette had official word of their safe arrival on Tuesday but as other sections of the Thirty-Second division had not reported nothing could be announced.Friday afternoon definite information was given that the boys were safely in. port and this morning came showers of post cards and letters, all written before the troops Heft Camp Merritt and mailed from New York after their safe arrival had been cabled back, to loving friends.and relatives and telegraphic permit on to make public the announcement from Washington.Sixteen Thousand.Madison, March 9.—That the Wisconsin National Guard have already arrived safely' on foreign shores was the effect of a score of messages received in Madison this mornirtg.Shortly' before Christmas the troops were transferred from CampMcArthur. Waco. Texas, to CampMerritt, Hoboken, New Jersey. Shortly after the sinking of the Tuscanla it was announced that the Wisconsin National Guard \ver« about to sail. The messages received in Madison this morning brought unbounded joy to Adjutant General Holloway' who was anxious about the forces of Wisconsin. The cards received do not state the location of the troopa. The Wisconsin National Guard which are now an foreign soil was composed of 16,000 Wisconsin men. General Holloway made the following official statement this morn tug, ‘’From scattering cablegrams which I received I anv satisfied that the Wisconsin National Guard are now safe on foreign soil.am jlin/ a rnioi ATI IDEdidatea are nominated are to beheldfiHINFKF PFflPLF RE
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Janesville Daily Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Mar 09, 1918
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