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LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20 (by mail).—
The first hospital for American sol
diers in Great Britain has just, been
opened in Liverpool. All other hos
pitals thus far opened in the British
Isles have been for American officers.
The Liverpool hospital is known as
American Red Cross military hospital
No. 4 and is situated in the Mossley
Hill district, the most fashionable resi
dential section about three miles from
the downtown business part of the
city. Already many American soldiers
occupy its cheerful wards and many
others in the convalescent stage, clad I
in hospital pale blue are walking about
the spacious grounds.
The hospital proper occupies Moss
ley House, the former home of Dr. Ed
mund Knowles Muspratt, a noted au
thority on chemistry and one of Liver
pool’s leading citizens, who when he j
heard that the Americans wanted it j
dglaly turned it over to them. It oc- j
enpies the highest elevation in the
city. A typical old gothic style Eng-j
lish town house, it stands in the center j
of seven acres of beautiful grounds, j
ihe flower gardens of which are rap-j
idly being converted into plots for
raising vegetables. An American flag,
flying from the tall staff in front of
the grounds can be seen a great dis-j
tance, and assists visitors to find the j
place.
The head of the hospital is Major j
Udo J. Wile, medical officers reserve j
corps, United States army, who is a:
member of the faculty of the Univers
ity of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Major
Wile came here last November and
has worked untiringly to outfit the in
stitution. In this he has been assisted
by Joseph R. Morris of Chicago, rep
resenting the American Red Cross.
The major’s staff conists of five of
ficers—three captains and two lieuten
ants. The personnel of the place in
cludes ten American Red Cross nurses,
twelve sergeants and twenty privates,
Miss Marion Weller, a graduate of the
New York hospital, is chief nurse.
Major Wile is proud of the fact that
thirty-four days after Mossley House
was taken over it was a fully equipped
American hospital ready for its first
patients. Today it has 150 beds with
room for expansion to 826 beds. The
institution is equipped throughout on
the American plan. This especially
is true of the hot water heating plant
and of the plumbing and electrical
installations, all of which work was
facilitated largely through the efforts
of the British rpyal engineers who
helped draw up the plans and put them
into xeecution in these days of labor
shortage.
The hospital now has ten wards for
soldiers, two small officers wards and
an operating room, besides the admin
istrative offices. It boasts two ambu
lances of the latest type, one given by
Richard Pearce, an American resident
in Liverpool and the second by an
anonymous donor.
About 200 yards from the hospital
are building two isolation wards,
each designed to accommodate 200
contagious disease patients. These
are one story structures of brick and
concrete. Each will have four ten
bed wards with two small wards in
the center for officers. A feature will
be discharge rooms were outgoing pa
tients can don their new garments.
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TOKIO, Feb. 16 (by mail).—Study-,
ing the apparent indifference of the
Japanese people, both towards home
politics and the great war questions of
the day, the Yorodzu, one of the Tokio
leading dailies, says there is nothing
in which the Japanese people, today,
are really interested, but in economic
questions. Continuing, the paper adds:
“The patriotism of this people re
veals itself only in the time of war
and particularly on the battlefields.
It is not so universal and steady as
the patriotism of western countries,
which has been exhibited in this great
war not only on the battlefield but
more particularly in the determination
of the whole people occupied in peace
ful industry at home to back up the
work of the battle front. The spirit
with which the western people have
sacrificed their property and various
other personal interests with silent
determination is a revelation to the
people of this country. The Japanese
ought to see, if they have not seen al
ready, that the boasted patriotism of
our people is very narrow and rather
superficial compared with the dogged
tenacity and the universality of the
western patriotism. Furthermore, we
are in the habit of considering patriot
ism as the spirit peculiar to soldiers.
The upper class and the general pub
lic have no clear idea of what patriot
ism means outside of the battlefield.
Nothing has been more ignoble than
the way the rich people of this coun
try have pursued their selfish inter
est in utter disregard of the national
interest.”
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Notice is hereby given that the
registration book for the registering
of voters for the municipal election to
be held in the town hall, in Cordova,
on Tuesday, April 2, 1918, will be
closed on Saturday, March 30, 1918,
at 4 o’clock p. m.
CHARLES M. ROSSWOG,
Registrar of Voters.
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ROME, March 1 (by mall).—Wart
memories of the middle ages have,
been renewed among the princely
houses of Italy by the recent decision
ot the Roman civil courts condemning
the old and famous families of Cor
sini and Barberini to restore to the
young daughter of the Prince of Sciar
ra property rights, involving a large
money income, vested in the ancient
order of the Knights of Malta.
Except among noble or Catholic
families the very existence of the mili
tant religious order of the Knights of
Malta had been forgotten here, yet
the decision of the court has shown
that large properties still are in the
possession of this order founded many
centuries ago at Jerusalem and which
successively controlled the islands of
Rhodes and Malta until driven out by
Napoleon.
The lawsuit was brought by Prince
Maffeo Sciarra in the interest of his
daughter. Formerly himself one of the
richest princes of Rome, he haa be
come so impoverished that he under-,
took several years ago the selling of
automobile insurance in order to earn
a living. In his misfortune he remem
bered that his family had once been
prominent in the Knights or Malta.
Then he discovered that owing to the i
great wealth of his own father and !
grandfather they had probably ne-|
glected a handsome income of $8,000!
or $10,000 a year due as heirs of a!
Knights of Malta title, an income
which for the past hundred years had j
been enjpyed by his relatives of the
princely houses of Corsini and Bar-1
berini. Prince Sciarra decided to sue!
for the accrued income.
After two years the court has now j
decided that the Princes of Barberini j
and Corsini shall make joint restitu-.
tion from the year 1819 until 1853,1
then that the Prince Corsini shall j
make full restitution from 1853 until
1880, and the Barberinis from ; 1880'
until the present time.
Prince Sciarra and his wife and j
daughters have once more taken :heir
place among the proud and excl isive
families of old Rome. .!■*
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