KITCHENER MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15787, 1 January 1917, Page 10

KITCHENER MEMORIAL.

. * FUND OPENED IN AMERICA. CARE OF DISABLED MEN. Tlie acceptance by Quern Alexandra of the dedication t-o her of the poem, "The Dork Star.'' bv Mr Edward Forrester Sutton, constitutes what is mid to bo tlie first recognition of this kind made by any European sovereign to an American poet. The verses. dealing with the liitc Fifild-.MniT.hal Lord Kitchener. are, dedicated to Queen Alexandra in her capacity as president- of the Kitchener Memorial- Fund. Mr Sutton has presented the poem to the fund, and eopies in Old English sc> ipt will he. sold for the benefit- of the fund. On the invitation «>f the F/nglish committee. an American Kitchener Fund (Committee has been organised in Now York under the chairman .iiip of .Mr F. Cunliffc-Owen. with Mr Joseph 11. Choatc, long Ambassador to the Court of St. Janice, as honorary president.

The memorial is to take the form of a series of institutions where officers and men of I.ho Army and Navy who have been entirely disabled while fighting for their country may receive special medical attention for the relief of their condition, as well as those cares which tend to prolong life and tn render it more endurable. The fund also aims at providing for totally disabled officers and men m the same fashion at their own homes, taking the ground that the pen.Mons and allowances accorded by the State are not sufficient, for that purpose.

The Kitchener Fund differs from most, others of the war relief order in that it is destined to outlast the present war and to prove ;i perpetijy I memorial to the great solrlicr to whom the British Empire i- indebted for the immense armies which it has limn able to put into t.hr field. Tin; American Commit too of the fund is appcalim: for subscriptions to all British subjects making their homes in t!._- t'r.ite.i States, to citizens of British birth or aneestrv. and to the many __ American admirers of the Into Lord Kitchcncr.