HOSPITAL AS AMERICAN MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 13

HOSPITAL AS AMERICAN MEMORIAL

Overlooking tho 15,000' roofless houses of Rheims and overshadowed by its battered cathedral will stand tho first great memorial to tho American Scad in France. This seeniß assured by {Tie official advices that havo reached the Paris headquarters of'the American fund for French wounded to tho effect that tho French Government will deed to tho fund ground in tho environs of Rheims on which a great American hospital will be erected. The sum of £20,000 for tho purposo has already been guaranteed by tho American fund organisation in tho United States. What remains to bo accomplished is tho raising of an endowment. fund for the hospital. This will bo achieved by perpetual endowments of memorial beds by individuals. Offers of money for such beds arc already reaching the headquarters of the fund from Americans at homo and in Franco. Mrs. Benjamin G. Lathrop, the president of tho organisation, will sail shortly for the United States in pursuance ot its plans.

The American hospital at Rheims will not only constitute a monument to the thousands of American soldiers lying buried throughout the battlo areas of France, but it is intended also to bo am enduring reminder that America had brought relief ot Franco even bofore the American armies arrived.